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SIMS v7 Release Notes

Ticket Version Component Description

SIMSSCR‐1267 7.13 Common Corrected an issue when selecting more than one record by highlighting records and clicking the "Display only highlighted records" button. The Summary and Detail reports may display all records and not just the highlighted records.

SIMSSCR‐2444 7.13 Common Fixed an error when adding a description or file path in a record's link which exceeds the maximum length size.

SIMSSCR‐3236 7.13 Common Fixed a login issue that would result in the message: "An error occurred. Your session is no longer valid. Invalid Session."

SIMSSCR‐3281 7.13 Common Made performance improvements running built‐in reports on a large database.

SIMSSCR‐2797 7.13 Contracts Fixed required fields in Performing Facility records in the Contracts module so that they are enforced when saving a record.

SIMSSCR‐2623 7.13 Conferences, Visit

Authorizations, Visitors

Corrected an issue so that visitors who are terminated, but still associated with a valid VAL, cannot be added to a conference.

SIMSSCR‐3193 7.13 Conferences, Visit

Authorizations, Visitors

Corrected validations that were not displaying when using the Verify Attendees button.

SIMSSCR‐1062 7.13 Documents Corrected an issue so that the tracer count displays in the document audit trail for external transfer transactions.

SIMSSCR‐1373 7.13 Documents The last date a tracer letter is sent on was added to the External Transfer Receipt audit trail record's comments.

SIMSSCR‐2837 7.13 Documents Corrected an issue when the Document Count by Special Access report does not display all special accesses.

SIMSSCR‐2558 7.13 Documents, DoD Requests, DoE Requests,

Incidents, Visit Authorizations,

Visitors

Fixed an issue when clicking "x" button in the input form will advance the numbering sequence instead of canceling it. The stream or series will appear to have been skipped when the add record loop is reentered at a later time.

SIMSSCR‐2841 7.13 DoD Requests, Web

Fixed an issue when submitting an unclassified OVR via the web when non‐employee is checked and the requester name, email and phone are manually entered. The requester phone was not being saved.

SIMSSCR‐2989 7.13 DoD Requests Added the required birthplace country to the visitor's birthplace on DoD Outgoing reports.

SIMSSCR‐2894 7.13 Facilities In Host and Other Facilities, removed unused fields and fixed minor issues, including validations, in Quick Reports, Query Editor and Quick Find.

SIMSSCR‐3097 7.13 Facilities Added new JAFAN checklist dated March 19, 2015 and SAPNP supplemental inspection questions to Host Facilities Internal Inspections.

SIMSSCR‐2960 7.13 Installers Updated the client, server, and workflow service installers so that MSXML.dll is no longer installed.

SIMSSCR‐855 7.13 IS Added eight new fields in the IS Access List.

SIMSSCR‐2829 7.13 Keys Fixed an error that can occur when adding Key records.

SIMSSCR‐3102 7.13 Personnel, Forms

The Forms module has been retired. The new PAR form dated November 20, 2014 is now available in Personnel Forms tab.

SIMSSCR‐222 7.13 Personnel Added the Sponsor field to available fields in Quick Reports for the PersonnelSAs table.

SIMSSCR‐682 7.13 Personnel Added a new built‐in 'Personnel Foreign Travel' report.

SIMSSCR‐1044 7.13 Personnel Added Form 4414 to the Forms tab in Personnel.

SIMSSCR‐1089 7.13 Personnel Added an option to map the JPAS 312 Brief Date in the JPAS import to the SIMS Briefed Date and SF 312 Date fields.

SIMSSCR‐1831 7.13 Personnel Fixed time out and performance issues when using the Apply Training Courses transaction to update a large number of personnel records.

SIMSSCR‐1948 7.13 Personnel Fixed an issue when adding bulk training in a large database when scrolling is turned off.

SIMSSCR‐2297 7.13 Personnel Added the column Facility ID in the Personnel Special Access screen so that the cage codes can be viewed.

SIMSSCR‐2449 7.13 Personnel Modified an existing validation message to clarify that the special access is for the contract. The updated validation states that the current user is not authorized to add special access [SA name] for Contract [ContractID]. The former message had stated: "The current user is not authorized to add special access [SAname]."

SIMSSCR‐2710 7.13 Personnel Fixed an error that would display in Personnel Special Access Tracking when the maximum length for the field is exceeded.

SIMSSCR‐3051 7.13 Personnel Fixed issues when selecting a special access date field and 'no date specified' would not find all null and empty dates.

SIMSSCR‐3098 7.13 Personnel Added PSQ Foreign Travel Form dated November 2014 (New SAP 6) to Personnel Foreign Travel Forms.

SIMSSCR‐3101 7.13 Personnel Added PSQ 1 Foreign Affections Form dated November 2014 (New SAP 20) to Personnel Foreign Travel/Foreign Contact Forms.

SIMSSCR‐3100 7.13 Personnel Added PSQ 2 Foreign Associations dated November 2014 (New SAP 27) to Personnel Foreign Contact Forms.

SIMSSCR‐3182 7.13 Personnel Fixed an issue when enabling the System Customization option "Restrict Personnel Queries to Current Data Group Branch." When searching Enterprise Wide, the queries were not being restricted.

SIMSSCR‐3201 7.13 Personnel Added a Special Access tab to Personnel Quick Find.

SIMSSCR‐2612 7.13 Utilities Added a statement in the Additional Custom Reports screen to indicate that certain custom report types create files that are saved in the user's temp folder.

SIMSSCR‐2644 7.13 Utilities Added the ability to use CAC sign on with SSL Required settings for the client.

SIMSSCR‐2337 7.13 Utilities The System Customization "Input form cancel confirmation" default is now enabled for new installations. A confirmation will appear to prevent accidentally canceling a record that was intended to be saved. When upgrading SIMS, this option and existing System Customization settings are not affected.

SIMSSCR‐2434 7.13 Utilities Fixed an issue when auto numbering does not recycle values after a user manually changes the value or exits record using the red 'x'.

SIMSSCR‐3131 7.13 Utilities The user account hierarchical data group is now displayed at the bottom right corner of the client window for the logged in user.

SIMSSCR‐3136 7.13 Utilities Added smart card (CAC) authentication that can be enabled in System Customization. CAC has been tested, although other types of smart cards can be used.

SIMSSCR‐1203 7.13 Visitors Added feature to select multiple Visitor records for the Check out transaction.

SIMSSCR‐1642 7.13 Visitors The Visitor Check In and Check Out transaction screens have been merged. When selecting either transaction, tabs allow you to switch between the two transactions.

SIMSSCR‐2363 7.13 Visitors Made updates to utilize Assured ID software's new features, including Duplex Mode.

SIMSSCR‐2561 7.13 Visitors Increased the Note field from 80 to 350 characters on the Check In screen and the Visitors/Visiting Data tab.

SIMSSCR‐2584 7.13 Visitors Fixed the value that is stored for Visitors Max Recurring Visit Count, so if the check box is unchecked, the value is 0 and when checked, the value is 1.

SIMSSCR‐2787 7.13 Visitors Visitors Check In transaction 'Today Only' option now uses the workstation date instead of the date of the server to determine which visitors to display.

SIMSSCR‐3195 7.13 Visitors When Issue T‐Badge is selected, the personnel's photo is now pulled in with the visitor details so that it can be printed on a T‐badge.

SIMSSCR‐898 7.13 Visit Authorizations

When the From Facility is modified in the Visit Authorization record, the From Facility data in Visitors that are linked to the Visit Authorization record are now updated.

SIMSSCR‐3006 7.13 Visitors, Visit Authorizations

Fixed an issue when encryption is enabled, the SSN does not save when adding an existing Visitor to a VAL or when adding a new Visitor to a VAL.

7.12.38 Installers SIMS version 7 with the exception of versions 7.5 or 7.6 can be upgraded to SIMS version 7.12. If using SIMS version 7.5.x or 7.6.x, uninstall SIMS before upgrading to version 7.11 or newer. Refer to the installation documentation for SIMS version 7.12 for installation and upgrade instructions.

SIMSSCR‐2440 7.12.38 Installers The SIMS installers no longer have an option to install SQL Server.

SIMSSCR‐2724 7.12.38 Installers Installing a new 7.11 database does not populate the VersionControl table. This is not an issue for a database that is being upgraded to 7.11 and has been corrected in version 7.12.

SIMSSCR‐3109 7.12.38 Installers Fixed an error that can occur when saving a new visitor record and the installation log indicates an upgrade issue.

SIMSSCR‐2405 7.12.38 Containers Added the ability to pick more than one Personnel or Visitor when adding Personnel/Visitors to a container.

SIMSSCR‐2581 7.12.38 Conferences Expanded the size of the description field on the Conferences summary report to prevent overlapping text.

SIMSSCR‐3053 7.12.38 Conferences Corrected validation issues when using "Verify Attendees".

SIMSSCR‐3058 7.12.38 Conferences Corrected an issue when checking if a visitor is already added in other conference records. It affects (1) a visitor not on a VAL who was admitted to attend a conference and (2) a visitor who denied entry for a conference (regardless if the visitor was on a VAL).

SIMSSCR‐2726 7.12.38 Contracts, Facilities

Added the FacilityAddress table so that it is available to DD254 Custom Reports.

SIMSSCR‐2729 7.12.38 Facilities, Utilities

Fixed an issue when Facility Points of Contact is required in Basic Data Field Defaults, a Facility POC could not be added in the Other Facilities module.

SIMSSCR‐1830 7.12.38 Documents Increased Document Derived From field from 40 to 150 characters.

SIMSSCR‐2727 7.12.38 Documents, Facilities

Added the FacilityAddress table so that it is available to Document Custom Reports.

SIMSSCR‐527 7.12.38 Documents, Facilities, IS, Utilities

Added a 'Commercial Delivery' checkbox for List Management Document and IS ?Send? methods and changed the description for the Facility checkbox in the Access Control tab to 'Approved by CSA for Commercial Delivery of Classified Material'. When executing a Document External Transfer, IS Hardware External Transfer, or IS System External Transfer transaction, a warning will appear if the sending or receiving Facility does not have the approval and the send method 'Commercial Delivery' option is checked.

SIMSSCR‐813 7.12.38 DoD Requests Added an option to print 'Remarks' on DoD Outgoing Requests.

SIMSSCR‐2551 7.12.38 DoD Requests When terminating all visitors on a DoD request and saving the record, validations regarding the from/to date range are now ignored.

SIMSSCR‐2535 7.12.38 DoD Requests, Keys

A validation is checking the brief date and debrief date of personnel clearances, but not the brief date and expiration date of a visitor clearance when the Brief/Not Debriefed validation is enabled. The visitor clearance brief date and expiration date are now being checked.

SIMSSCR‐2578 7.12.38 Incidents Fixed Responsible* and ReportedBy* fields that were not functioning properly in Customize Output List, Advanced Quick Find, and Quick Reports.

SIMSSCR‐2940 7.12.38 IS Fixed an issue that can occur when the personnel/visitor picker is used in the IS Hardware screen and the record is saved.

SIMSSCR‐136 7.12.38 Personnel Added capability to record multiple activity periods for the same contract in the Contract/Vehicles tab in the Personnel module.

SIMSSCR‐2023 7.12.38 Personnel Modified the JPAS Import transaction to use the current format from JPAS.

SIMSSCR‐2791 7.12.38 Personnel Improved the performance of Personnel saves.

SIMSSCR‐2821 7.12.38 Personnel Changed PersonnelClearanceTrail.LastModBy size from 40 to 50 characters to match UserID size. This fixes an error that would appear if UserID was more than 40 characters.

SIMSSCR‐2834 7.12.38 Locks Fixed an error that can occur when assigning a key to an existing lock and the lock has a custodian linked to a clearance.

SIMSSCR‐2582 7.12.38 Visitors Visitor Fields such as tmpConferenceName, tmpContractID, and tmpHostFacilityName are now hidden from the Visitor Customize Output List and Quick Reports since there isn't data to display for these types of fields.

SIMSSCR‐2585 7.12.38 Visitors Fixed Visitors Advanced Quick Find fields that were not returning results as expected.

SIMSSCR‐2854 7.12.38 Visitors Two settings have been added to enable logging all scanner related events on the SIMS side. In SIMS.Exe.config and xAssureTecService.exe.config on the client, logging will turn on when setting the EnableScannerVerboseLogging value to 'true'. The log file will be generated in the location specified by "ScannerVerboseLogPath". The default location is "C:\temp\AssureTecScannerVerboseLog.txt" and logging is turned off by default.

SIMSSCR‐2586 7.12.38 Visit Authorizations

Updated various Visit Authorization Fields in Quick Reports so that the fields that do not display data are hidden or populated correctly.

SIMSSCR‐281 7.12.38 Visit Authorizations,

Visitors

Changes made to a visitor record from within the Visit Authorization module will now appear in the 'DB Audit Trail' tab for the Visitor record in the Visitors module.

SIMSSCR‐2702 7.12.38 Visit Authorizations,

Visitors

Fixed an error that can occur when adding a Visitor with Allowed Days/Times to a Visit Authorization created in Incoming Visit Request (IVR) web pages.

SIMSSCR‐2504 7.12.38 Utilities Cosmetic update in System Customization Documents tab.

SIMSSCR‐2730 7.12.38 Utilities Added a login lock out feature that can be configured in the System Customization System tab. A user can be locked out after x number attempts within y number of minutes. An unlock button was added in User Settings so that an administrator can unlock the account.

SIMSSCR‐2548 7.12.38 Utilities, Personnel

Added a JPAS Import option to process records in batches of a specified maximum size. This value is set in the System Customization Personnel tab.

SIMSSCR‐3130 7.12.38 Utilities, Reports Added a user setting to restrict or allow access to the Reports menu.

SIMSSCR‐3144 7.12.38 Utilities, Reports Added a system option to prevent reports of a certain size to be generated. Also, added a User Management setting to override this record limit.

SIMSSCR‐2565 7.12.38 Utilities, Visitors Corrected Visitor Control validations that were not displaying messages. Visitor Control validation ?Require Security Department Approval? for ?Escorted visits? prevents a visitor with an escort from being admitted without security department approval. ?Require VAL? validation for ?Escorted visits? prevents a visitor with an escort from being admitted without a VAL.

SIMSSCR‐459 7.12.38 Web Replaced date controls to allow web services to run as native 64‐bit processes. SIMS application pools on 64‐bit operating systems no longer require 'Enable 32‐bit applications' to be set to true; however, setting 'Enable 32‐bit applications' to true is a Microsoft recommendation for improved performance.

SIMSSCR‐2446 7.12.38 Web Added a feature to allow a SIMS administrator to end a user's session by logging in to the session log web pages.

SIMSSCR‐2669 7.12.38 Web Updated communications between the Client and Server to be able to recognize and react to the latest attack patterns associated with replay attacks.

SIMSSCR‐2670 7.12.38 Web Updated web services to be able to recognize and react to the latest attack patterns associated with application‐level Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.

SIMSSCR‐2671 7.12.38 Web Updated web services to strengthen access control mechanisms and be able to recognize and react to the latest attack patterns associated with Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks.

SIMSSCR‐2672 7.12.38 Web Updated web services and the application to remove cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, specifically targeting input without proper validation.

SIMSSCR‐2674 7.12.38 Web Ensure the SIMS application is not susceptible to SQL Injection attacks.

SIMSSCR‐2675 7.12.38 Web Ensure that all SIMS web pages utilize a character set.

SIMSSCR‐2697 7.12.38 Web When editing "Utilities / System Customization / E‐mail & Fax / E‐mail & Fax Option / Validate e‐mail addresses," the existing e‐mail expression is specified for guidance and continues to be modifiable by the user. As an improvement, the existing regular expression has been updated to allow e‐mail addresses with a single character domain name, where single character could be between a to z, A to Z or 0 to 9. Also, the modification will allow email addresses with domain names that could have '‐' or '_' in them in the portion after '@' and before the first '.' Sub‐domain addresses can also be specified. The following email address formats will be considered valid: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], asdf@a‐a.com, asdf@aa_aa.com

SIMSSCR‐2731 7.12.38 Web Update SOAP messages to ensure header information is signed and encrypted with the latest technology.

SIMSSCR‐2732 7.12.38 Web Update SOAP messages to comply with the latest security standards including encryption, transmission integrity and attack prevention.

SIMSSCR‐2766 7.12.38 Web Outgoing Visit Request detail web page will now show the To Facility contact name and contact phone override values if they exist. Otherwise it will show values from the facility address.

SIMSSCR‐2511 7.11.207 Incidents The IncidentSubject ID from the Report Log in incidents is not being pulled in Quick Reports.

SIMSSCR‐2694 7.11.207 Locks & Keys Fixed how the lock copy and edit feature handles transaction history before and after saving the record.

SIMSSCR‐2507 7.11.207 Personnel, Utilities

User option, "Allow modifications to Personnel Primary Clearance" setting will now overide the Data Group Filtering Personnel tab restriction setting for the user.

SIMSSCR‐2521 7.11.207 Personnel Updated fields in Quick Reports and in the Query Editor, added validation of Personal E‐mail address.

SIMSSCR‐2576 7.11.207 Visitors Added a Badge Print Preview button to the Visitor Check in Transaction screen.

SIMSSCR‐2689 7.11.207 Visitors, Visit Authorizations

Visitor Check In T‐Badge option will check for required fields set in the Advanced Data Field Defaults VisitorVisits table.


Corrected various Advanced Data Field Default validations and fields related to Incoming Visit Request web pages.

SIMSSCR‐2698 7.11.207 Web Changed System Customization Incoming Visitors Web Authentication choice of "LDAP only" to "SIMS User and LDAP" to more accurately describe how it is used.

SIMSSCR‐864 7.11.207 Workflow Service

Added an option to attach files (e.g., .pdf, .zip, .csv, .docx, .xlsx, .png) to the AttachmentTxt column in CustomEmails.

SIMSSCR‐1992 7.11.102 Common Upgraded to .NET Framework 4.0 for improved functionality and performance.

SIMSSCR‐1679 7.11.102 Common Set the maximum length of textbox controls in SIMS to not exceed the length of the corresponding column in the database.

SIMSSCR‐1891 7.11.102 Common Added an option in User Management to allow a user access to the DB Audit Trail in all modules. This is for non‐managers.

SIMSSCR‐1961 7.11.102 Common Added a System Customization option to present a blank output list when a module opens. SIMSSCR‐577 7.11.102 Common Replaced all instances of @@IDENTITY in Stored Procedures with SCOPE_IDENTITY(). SIMSSCR‐1865 7.11.102 Conferences Added an option to Conference validations to "Allow visitors without a Visit Authorization

if the conference classification rank is less than or equal to <value>". This is to allow visitors to attend an unclassified conference when they do not have a visit authorization.

SIMSSCR‐1798 7.11.102 Containers Added a Location Detail field to Containers. SIMSSCR‐1836 7.11.102 Containers Added an Alarm Test tab and fields to capture alarm tests. SIMSSCR‐1885 7.11.102 Containers Added a Contract field to track which contract the container is for.

SIMSSCR‐1586 7.11.102 Contracts Added a Points of Contact tab and listview to the Contracts module. SIMSSCR‐1799 7.11.102 Contracts In the Contract module, DD 254 record, when the Archive checkbox is checked, the DD 254

is now displayed in red on the DD 254 list view. SIMSSCR‐1826 7.11.102 Contracts Added an enterprise wide option to Contracts pickers. SIMSSCR‐1827 7.11.102 Contracts Added a Category List Management field to the Home tab. SIMSSCR‐1841 7.11.102 Contracts Converted Contract Sponsor field to a picker using the Personnel Sponsor list. Custom

reports that use the Sponsor column will need to be edited to use the tmpContractSponsor column instead.

SIMSSCR‐340 7.11.102 Documents Modified Document Transaction Receipt Return (external and internal) to run in a loop when doing multiple returns.

SIMSSCR‐479 7.11.102 Documents Added a Document validation option for Loaned To personnel to have clearance brief date and not a debrief date.

SIMSSCR‐1818 7.11.102 Documents Added a Responsible Person field to the Origin tab. SIMSSCR‐1839 7.11.102 Documents Added the ability to make a document accountable during a Document Regrade

Transaction. SIMSSCR‐2066 7.11.102 Documents Added Responsible Person validations in the System Customization Document validations

screen. SIMSSCR‐2371 7.11.102 Documents Any custom reports that override the Document Count by Keyword will need to be

rewritten. SIMSSCR‐2080 7.11.102 DoD Requests Added additional Request DoD Output List fields to the RequestPersons list in Quick

Reports.

SIMSSCR‐1615 7.11.102 Facilities Converted the Rating field into a List Management field in Cognizant Inspections for Host Facilities.

SIMSSCR‐2075 7.11.102 Facilities Added additional Facility Output List fields to the CogOfficeInspect list in Quick Reports.

SIMSSCR‐2095 7.11.102 Facilities Added Entry Points to Facility Addresses in Host and Other Facilities. SIMSSCR‐2109 7.11.102 Facilities Added Cog Office Inspection Date to the Quick Find date search options in Host Facilities.

SIMSSCR‐2447 7.11.102 Facilities Corrected an issue when creating a new Facility with a Cog Office.

SIMSSCR‐1613 7.11.102 Facilities, Personnel

Added a Contact Type list management field to Facilities Points of Contact.

SIMSSCR‐946 7.11.102 Facilities, Utilities

Expanded Advanced Data Field Defaults to include child tables. The Facilities data field defaults split into "Host" and "Other" Facility tables.

SIMSSCR‐1817 7.11.102 Incidents Increased the Incident Type field to 60 characters. SIMSSCR‐1819 7.11.102 Incidents Added a Description Summary field in the Description tab.

SIMSSCR‐1821 7.11.102 Incidents Added a Disciplinary Action field to the Subject list on the Home tab to track disciplinary action taken.

SIMSSCR‐1823 7.11.102 Incidents Added a Contract picker to Incidents Home tab.

SIMSSCR‐1837 7.11.102 Incidents Added a report log with a Subject picker to track incidents reported to customer and other entities.

SIMSSCR‐1840 7.11.102 Incidents Added a Reporting Entity list management field to the home tab. Custom reports that use the SelfReported column will need to be edited to use the tmpSelfReported column instead.

SIMSSCR‐2101 7.11.102 Incidents Added additional fields to the Subject list in Quick Reports. SIMSSCR‐605 7.11.102 Installers,

Workflow Service

Converted all installers to use InstallShield 2014.

SIMSSCR‐1828 7.11.102 IS Added a Category field to the Software record.

SIMSSCR‐2132 7.11.102 IS Additional existing Fields were added to the Contract Table in IS Quick Reports.

SIMSSCR‐680 7.11.102 IS Increased the Number of Workstations field to 4 digits.

SIMSSCR‐850 7.11.102 IS Added a contracts tab and contracts listview to the IS module.

SIMSSCR‐1816 7.11.102 Keys Added a new list 'Key Type' to replace 'Master' check box in the Keys home tab.

SIMSSCR‐1820 7.11.102 Locks Added a Location description field to Locks.

SIMSSCR‐1036 7.11.102 Personnel Added Form 4311 to the Forms tab in the Personnel module.

SIMSSCR‐1070 7.11.102 Personnel Added a Tasks tab to the Special Access portion of the Personnel module to apply Task Groups and Tasks.

SIMSSCR‐1078 7.11.102 Personnel Added personal cell phone and personal email fields to the Personal tab.

SIMSSCR‐1580 7.11.102 Personnel Added a Status Date field to the Employment tab. Status Date will change to the current date when the Status is changed.

SIMSSCR‐1824 7.11.102 Personnel Added option to the Personnel CPRL report to search using contracts in Special Accesses instead of the Personnel Contracts. The report is now sorted by position instead of last name.

SIMSSCR‐1838 7.11.102 Personnel Added the SAP Form 20 to Personnel Foreign Contacts.

SIMSSCR‐1842 7.11.102 Personnel Added user options to limit editing of Personnel Special Accesses based on contract by user.

SIMSSCR‐1855 7.11.102 Personnel Increased the length of the Division field to 60 characters. SIMSSCR‐1856 7.11.102 Personnel Increased the length of the Beeper Number field to 60 characters.

SIMSSCR‐1857 7.11.102 Personnel Increased the length of the Organization field to 60 characters.

SIMSSCR‐1861 7.11.102 Personnel Increased the length of the Cell Phone field on the Personal tab to 60 characters.

SIMSSCR‐1864 7.11.102 Personnel Added a Report Log tab and fields in Personnel Foreign Travel and Foreign Contacts to record customer and other notifications.

SIMSSCR‐1877 7.11.102 Personnel Added a new Contact Type field on Personnel Contacts tab. SIMSSCR‐1886 7.11.102 Personnel Added Contract Program Name in Personnel Clearance Cases, Task Group to the Personnel

Clearance Task Set list, and a checkbox option in User Management to "Allow Modification to Personnel Primary Clearance".

SIMSSCR‐1889 7.11.102 Personnel Converted Personnel Clearance Polygraph Given By fields to pickers. Added Case Date and Completion Date to Polygraph fields. Custom reports that use the PolyGivenBy and PolyGivenBy2 columns will need to be edited to use the tmpPolyGivenBy1 and tmpPolyGivenBy1 columns instead.

SIMSSCR‐1891 7.11.102 Personnel Increased the length of the Cell Phone field on the Employment tab to 60 characters.

SIMSSCR‐1902 7.11.102 Personnel Added a validation setting, 'Validate Special Accesses for Contract'.

SIMSSCR‐1905 7.11.102 Personnel Corrected an issue with Personnel JPAS Import transaction related to pending investigations.

SIMSSCR‐2131 7.11.102 Personnel Additional Personnel Output List Fields were added to the Special Access table in Quick Reports.

SIMSSCR‐2190 7.11.102 Personnel Corrected an Issue with Personnel JPAS Import transaction related tor pending investigations.

SIMSSCR‐2191 7.11.102 Personnel Additional Personnel Output list fields were added to the Badges Table in Quick Reports.

SIMSSCR‐2435 7.11.102 Personnel Extended the Badge Reason field to 100 characters. SIMSSCR‐2084 7.11.102 Personnel Added the SAP Form 6 to Personnel Foreign Travel.

SIMSSCR‐2085 7.11.102 Personnel Added a Forms Tab and SAP Form 27 to Personnel Foreign Contacts.

SIMSSCR‐1591 7.11.102 Personnel, Visitors

Added the ability to issue employee temporary badges, T‐Badges, through the Visitor Check‐in transaction.

SIMSSCR‐1671 7.11.102 Personnel, Web Added SA Billet Type to the Personnel Detail web page as a new column in the list of Special Accesses.

SIMSSCR‐435 7.11.102 Quick Reports Corrected an issue when exporting 4550+ records to CSV format using Quick Reports.

SIMSSCR‐1512 7.11.102 Utilities Added feature to display login ID and User Name on the bottom right of screen when logged on.

SIMSSCR‐1794 7.11.102 Utilities Added a feature to enable Single sign on using LDAP.

SIMSSCR‐1829 7.11.102 Utilities Added a Special Access Type list management picker to Utilities Special Accesses.

SIMSSCR‐2162 7.11.102 Utilities Corrected an issue when upgrading to version 7.10.46 when the same countries are tied to different data groups.


Added SSN to the Visitor Authorization Quick Find.


Added a Type list management field to the Visit Authorization home tab.


Corrected an issue in which all Visitor records are displayed in the Check In screen after a visitor is checked even though the System Customization setting is unchecked.


Fixed an error that can occur when saving a Visit Authorization with a deleted Point of Contact.

SIMSSCR‐1537 7.11.102 Visitors Added a checkbox and validation so that in order to add a visitor as an escort, the visitor will need to have the Authorized to Escort box checked in the selected Visitor record to display as an option on the Escort picklist.

SIMSSCR‐1569 7.11.102 Visitors Added the ability to create Visitors during check‐in without the 3M scanner.

SIMSSCR‐1572 7.11.102 Visitors Added Visitor Badge Color, Badge Type, Badge Date, Badge Expiration and Security POC to the Visitor Check In screen and the Visiting Occurrence screen.

SIMSSCR‐1589 7.11.102 Visitors Added a Representative Country field in the Visitor Check‐in dialog.

SIMSSCR‐1815 7.11.102 Visitors Added a Do Not Admit checkbox to Visitors which will preclude check‐in. SIMSSCR‐1825 7.11.102 Visitors Added an option to not copy Clearances and Special Accesses when copying a Visitor

record. SIMSSCR‐1835 7.11.102 Visitors Added a warning when a visitor has already been checked in the same day and received a

badge.

SIMSSCR‐1845 7.11.102 Visitors Added an Access Card Return checkbox to the Visitor Check Out dialog, the Visit Occurrence form and Visit Record report.

SIMSSCR‐2093 7.11.102 Visitors Added additional fields to basic Quick Find.

SIMSSCR‐2321 7.11.102 Visitors Added tool tips for the Authorized To Escort and Escort Required checkboxes on the Visitors input screen and prevented both boxes from being checked.

SIMSSCR‐2360 7.11.102 Visitors Corrected an issue that would not allow a user to edit required fields when checking in a new visitor.

SIMSSCR‐2392 7.11.102 Visitors Added Visit Authorization Type to Visitors Module Basic Quick Find. SIMSSCR‐2438 7.11.102 Visitors, Visit

Authorizations Corrected an issue when a default value exists in Advanced Data Field Defaults for Visitor Badge "Type".


Corrected an issue when copying a Visit Authorization record with an existing Visitor record where the Badge "Type" and "Color" fields are populated.

7.10.46 Common If an ExcludeList file is being used and any of the following tables are listed in the file,

please contact SIMS Support for assistance in upgrading to v7.10.46: Conference, ConferencePOCs, CustomEmails, Personnel, Users, Visit Authorization, VisitAuthorizationPOCs, Visitors, VisitorVisits.

7.10.46 Common Refer to SIMS_Database_Changes.pdf which lists the columns that were added in v7.10.46 and whether or not the new column is supported by import/export transactions. This file is located in the Documentation folder (i.e. C:\Program Files (x86)\SIMS Software\Client\Documentation).

SIMSSCR‐1286 7.10.46 Common Corrected an issue in which a validation message "Existing Session Detected" would display, causing users with LDAP accounts to be locked out of SIMS. The workaround to update in SQL the session end date for the user ID locked out of SIMS is no longer needed.

SIMSSCR‐1676 7.10.46 Common SIMS Standalone installer now uses SQL Server 2008 R2 (32‐bit) instead of SQL Server 2005.

SIMSSCR‐1937 7.10.46 Installers Corrected web service installation issues that occurred on Windows 8, Windows 2008 R2 Server, and Windows Server 2012 which required supplement installation steps.

SIMSSCR‐1339 7.10.46 Contracts Added a Contact Name column in the Classified Contracts module on the Facility/Address Picker of the Government Agency tab.

SIMSSCR‐412 7.10.46 Personnel Added the Contract ID and Status columns to the Special Access tab in Personnel. SIMSSCR‐637 7.10.46 Personnel Corrected an issue when a Personnel record's Primary Clearance is changed to another

clearance (new or existing) and the Facility IDs are different, the Facility ID was not updating in the discrepancy report during a JPAS import transaction.

SIMSSCR‐1078 7.10.46 Personnel Added personal cell phone and personal e‐mail fields to the Personnel Personal tab. SIMSSCR‐1085 7.10.46 Personnel Added a check box to the Personnel Home tab to track Authorized Escorts. SIMSSCR‐1265 7.10.46 Personnel Added ability to display all Contracts (inactive and active) and not only active Contracts in

the Contract Picker of Personnel Quick Find.

SIMSSCR‐1442 7.10.46 Personnel Added a 'No Date Specified' checkbox and an 'Any Date Specified' checkbox to the Personnel module/Quick Find/Basic tab.

SIMSSCR‐1539 7.10.46 Personnel Fixed an issue with Personnel JPAS Import transaction displaying incorrect dates such that the following workaround is no longer needed: Open the .csv file with Notepad, and select Edit / Replace and put in find "0:00," replace with "," without the quotes. Do a Replace All, save and then re‐try the import.

SIMSSCR‐42 7.10.46 Visitors Added ‘Current Visit Count’ and ‘Maximum Visit Count’ fields in the Visiting Data tab.

SIMSSCR‐749 7.10.46 Visitors Corrected an issue when Visitor Check‐In Transaction prints the Visitor Badge and a validation message "Escort Required for Unclassified Visit" displays.

SIMSSCR‐1811 7.10.46 Visitors Added a feature to allow users with Read Only access to the Visitor module to create new visitor records using the 3M scanner.

SIMSSCR‐1155 7.10.46 Visitors Fixed an issue with the Visitor SA table not displaying all values associated with each visitor on the Output List and Quick Report.

SIMSSCR‐1464 7.10.46 Visitors If Badge information is populated in the selected Visitor record, the Badge information will now be displayed at Visitor Check In for save or edit.

SIMSSCR‐1485 7.10.46 Visitors When performing a Check Out Transaction in the Visitors module, searching for Badge Number field at times would not pull up visitor records. This issue has been corrected.

SIMSSCR‐1182 7.10.46 Documents Added a Signed for Date field for Document Internal Transfer Receipt Returned Transaction.

SIMSSCR‐544 7.10.46 Conferences, Visit

Authorizations

Added Lobby Management user interface to approve Attendees and Visit Authorization Visitors.

SIMSSCR‐322 7.10.46 DoD Outgoing Requests

Added a Classification field on the OVR that will populate the Classification field on the Home tab of the DoD outgoing request.

SIMSSCR‐1490 7.10.46 DoE Outgoing Requests

Fixed an issue in which all available visitors not limited to the visitors attached to a selected DoE record would display on the DoE Termination/Regrade report. This would happen if one DoE record was checked rather than highlighted in the output list screen.

SIMSSCR‐385 7.10.46 Conferences Added the ability to add a Special Access to a Conference and Meeting record and established validations that require attendees to have the required Special Accesses to attend the meeting.


Corrected an issue that occurs when a space is added in the SSN field. (1) Don’t allow an SSN comprised entirely of spaces; (2) Don’t look up a Visitor ID or SSN unless the user has typed/pasted into the field that they are leaving; and (3) Don’t look up a Visitor ID or SSN unless the value in the field has at least one none‐space field.


Corrected an issue when the SSN field in the Visitors table is set to 'Required' in Advanced Data Field Defaults, Visit Authorizations with Visitors that have valid SSN numbers are unable to be saved until each attached visitor record is reopened and re‐saved.

SIMSSCR‐43 7.10.46 Conferences, DoD Requests, Utilities, Visit Authorizations, Visitors, Utilities,

Installers

Added Lobby Management ‐ E‐mail Notification feature. Customers upgrading from SIMS v6 will need to install version 7.9.30, execute a custom SQL script, use the Import Engine to migrate their data, and then upgrade SIMS to version 7.10.46 or newer.

SIMSSCR‐44 7.10.46 Utilities, Visitors Added Lobby Management ‐ Visitor Check‐In user enhancements. The ‘Badges Not Returned’ report was modified to handle denied visitors (which did not exist in 7.9.30). To be listed, the following must be true : (1) The visitor must have been admitted; and (2) The BadgeReturned value must be false. A visitor that is currently checked in still appears on the report. A visitor that checks in and checks out shows up (regardless of whether he/she was given a badge) if the ‘Badge Not Returned’ button is clicked when he/she checks out.

SIMSSCR‐38 7.10.46 Conferences, Utilities, Visit Authorizations, Visitors, Web

Added Lobby Management ‐ Visitor Check‐In web user interface.

SIMSSCR‐2030 7.10.46 Utilities When the Visitor table is selected in Advanced Data Field Defaults, a note is displayed to indicate that requiring a field that is not available in the "Fields to Show" list on the Incoming Visitors tab of the System Customization utility will prevent visitors from being submitted via the web page.

SIMSSCR‐683 7.10.46 Web Updated Personnel web service to include the Personnel Organization column. SIMSSCR‐1931 7.10.46 Web Corrected an issue when passwords with "<", ">" followed by a letter displayed a .NET error when

accessing SIMS through the web.

SIMSSCR‐162 7.9.30 Personnel Additional fields were added to the personnel foreign travel dialog for travel request number, pre‐travel brief date, debrief date, and a list management field for foreign travel type.

SIMSSCR‐543 7.9.30 Personnel Certain date fields exported from JPAS can appear in different formats such as YYYY MM DD or DD/MM/YYYY. SIMS now supports all the different date formats that could be exported from JPAS.

SIMSSCR‐273 7.9.30 Personnel When adding a batch of special accesses to a personnel record, a user can now specify a contract to be associated with the batch of special accesses being added.

SIMSSCR‐629 7.9.30 Personnel A new Contract picklist was added to the Personnel clearance module allowing contract numbers to be added to the supporting Clearance Case.

SIMSSCR‐1279 7.9.30 Personnel A new contract picklist was added to the Personnel clearance module in v7.8.40. Corrected an issue where a newly selected contract would not appear on the clearance record until the record was saved and reopened. This issue is not present in versions prior to v7.8.40 because that field had not yet been added to personnel clearances.

SIMSSCR‐493 7.9.30 Personnel In Utilities / Clearance Levels, each clearance level has a reinvestigation time period setting to dictate in the Personnel clearance case, how many days between investigations. Corrected an issue that occurred when a user enters 0 in the reinvestigation time period in days setting in Utilities/Clearance Levels and then performs the JPAS import, the clearance case reinvestigation notification date was populated with the information from the investigated date in the JPAS import.

SIMSSCR‐540 7.9.30 Personnel Corrected an issue that only occurred in rare cases. The Personnel Clearance Metrics report could generate an error. This error is data specific and was only reproducible by one customer.

SIMSSCR‐1226 7.9.30 Personnel Corrected a printing issue for the Key Management Personnel (KMP) report. When printing, if no values were specified for the initial or change report dates, the current date would display instead of a blank date value.

SIMSSCR‐154 7.9.30 Visitors When entering a new visitor record, a user could populate the Visitor ID field, move to the next field, and the most recent visitor record matching the Visitor ID would be copied into the new record. This capability has been extended to the SSN field.

SIMSSCR‐809 7.9.30 Visitors A new 30 character 'Vendor' text field was added to the Visitor module check‐in transaction dialog and the Visit Occurrence dialog on the visitor input form. This field is intended to be used for checking in visitors where there is no need to add their company to the Other Facilities module.

SIMSSCR‐808 7.9.30 Visitors A new feature was added to control how the 'ID Type' list management value was populated when a visitor is checked in using the 3M AT9000 document scanner. The default behavior is to use the generic format such as Passport, Drivers License, etc. This can be changed by modifying the <add key="ScannedIDType" value="General"> to <add key="ScannedIDType" value="Specific"> in the SIMS.exe.config file. This change will record the more specific document type such as United States (USA) Passport and California (CA) Drivers License.

SIMSSCR‐1178 7.9.30 Visitors An issue introduced in v7.8.16 was corrected. An exception could be generated when using the new 'Check in New Visitor' function to create a new visitor record at the time of check in.

SIMSSCR‐1227 7.9.30 Visitors Visitors with a 'from' date in the future are no longer permitted to be checked in by a guard using the check‐in transaction.


Corrected an issue where the 'Filter Inactive' checkbox on the Visit Authorization output list was not filtering inactive records if the 'To Date' was the previous day. The record was still treated as inactive and shown in red, but it still appeared in the output list along with active records.

SIMSSCR‐1255 7.9.30 Web When using the DoD Outgoing Visit Request web page to submit records for approval, the selected facility phone number would display the prefix incorrectly depending on the format of the phone number in the facility record. It would appear as (123) ___‐7890 instead of (123) 456‐7890. While it displayed incorrectly on the web page which has been corrected, OVR reports did display the correct phone number regardless of the format.

SIMSSCR‐1241 7.9.30 Utilities The Database Audit Utility was incorrectly displaying data group headers when the report was run in portrait mode and the personnel records involved had been updated from JPAS. A workaround is to select the landscape format or run a SQL script to clear the PersonnelJPAS table. The correct data group headers now display.

SIMSSCR‐1207 7.9.30 Documents A Utilities/List Management field was added for the new 'Classification Reason' field which is on the Status tab of the document module as required by E.O. 13526.

SIMSSCR‐1198 7.9.30 Documents A new 'Declassify Event' field was added to the Status tab of the document module. SIMSSCR‐99 7.9.30 Documents Corrected an issue where users were unable to generate document tracer letters for

overdue receipts for documents transferred to a different data group. SIMSSCR‐1230 7.9.30 Documents Corrected an issue where the document audit trail record for the inventory transaction

was not displaying the custodian name or ID information when performing a document barcode inventory by custodian.

SIMSSCR‐1150 7.9.30 Documents The primary container custodian value has been added for use in custom reports. SIMSSCR‐464 7.9.30 Documents When performing an Internal Transfer transaction in the Document module, the 'Signed

For' date was not updating correctly if: (i) the 'Overdue Document Internal Transfer Receipt/Tracer' value in System Customization / Time Periods was set to 0, the signed for date was changed to the date the return receipt was processed instead of retaining its original value, and (ii) if the 'OverDue Document Internal Transfer Receipt/Tracer' value in System Customization / Time Periods was a value greater than 0, the date would not display in the audit trail. This issue has been corrected and the date now correctly displays.

SIMSSCR‐432 7.9.30 Documents Users can now perform Return Receipt transactions regardless of data group membership if data group filtering is disabled. If the Data Group filters are disabled the user is now able to both externally transfer and return the receipt.

SIMSSCR‐541 7.9.30 Contracts The custom report designer was expanded to include DD254 data for use with custom contract module reports.

SIMSSCR‐768 7.9.30 Contracts Several corrections were made to the DoD and NSA versions of the DD254 to make sure they forms matched exactly with the official government current versions.

SIMSSCR‐390 7.9.30 Contracts Corrected an issue where users migrating from SIMS v6.12.1 to SIMS v7.6 or later could experience an exception when importing Contract records because of a new 'RevisedFlag' field that was added to v7.

SIMSSCR‐1257 7.9.30 Contracts When generating the Contracts by Facility report the facility clearance level and storage level values were blank. This issue was corrected and the values now correctly display.

SIMSSCR‐1023 7.9.30 DoE Requests Minor typographical errors were corrected on the DoE Request Detail Report ‐ Request for Visit Access Approval'.

SIMSSCR‐453 7.9.30 Common Corrected an issue where non managers who are assigned to individual data groups are able to delete records in their hierarchical data group, but were unable to delete records in individual data groups. If a user has read/write access to a module and they are a member of that data group, they should be allowed to delete record unless the System Customization option is enabled to restrict records deletions to managers only.

SIMSSCR‐1316 7.9.30 Workflow Service

A new option was added to the SIMS Workflow Service to enable verbose logging to help identify difficult to reproduce behavior.

SIMSSCR‐1133 7.8.37 Common If a user is not assigned to a data group, they are not restricted to one or more data

groups and can view all List Management items regardless of their data group assignment. That behavior is by design. When editing a record, the only List Management items displayed in the picklist are those not assigned to a data group. For consistency users not assigned to a data group can now select List Management items from any data group. Note that if you're using data groups, the only users who should be logging in with no data group membership are those running reports and not changing records.

SIMSSCR‐1106 7.8.37 Common Due to NISPOM Conforming Change Number 1, the maximum length of a special access name was increased from 20 to 32 characters to accommodate the new marking 'REL USA AND GBR TREATY COMMUNITY'.

SIMSSCR‐941 7.8.37 Common SIMS only allows one session at a time for each user account. If a second client logs in using an account that already has an active session, the first session will be terminated. SIMS will now warn the second user that if they continue with the login process, the existing session will be terminated.

SIMSSCR‐1105 7.8.37 Documents Due to NISPOM Conforming Change Number 1, two new fields were added to the 'Downgrade' section on the Status tab of document records. The first is a 'Classified By' personnel picklist, the second is a 'Classification Reason' list item. Personnel can only be selected for 'Classified By' if their personnel record has either 'Original Classifier' or 'Derivative Classifier' checked on the home tab. Additionally, the Declassification Exemptions section was renamed 'Declassification Exemptions (Obsolete)'.

SIMSSCR‐1107 7.8.37 Documents A new document validation was added to require (U) to appear at the beginning of the document title. This is in addition to the existing validation to require (U) to appear at the end of the document title. This new validation was added to comply with NISPOM Conforming Change Number 1.

SIMSSCR‐290 7.8.37 Documents Personnel ID is no longer required during a 'Return to Accountability' Transaction when the 'Document Return to Accountability New Custodian' box is checked in Basic Data Field Defaults.

SIMSSCR‐377 7.8.37 Documents Corrected and issue with spelling and verbiage on the error message for External Transfers Receipt.

SIMSSCR‐438 7.8.37 Documents Corrected an error that appeared in Document Transactions when loading a Scanset and changing the transaction type.

SIMSSCR‐635 7.8.37 Documents Corrected an issue with External Transfer Receipt printing 'Sent by' instead of 'Authorized by'.

SIMSSCR‐698 7.8.37 Documents Corrected an issue that occurred when creating a new Document with 'Disable Custodian edit via transactions' setting enabled that did not allow you to populate custodian.

SIMSSCR‐701 7.8.37 Documents Corrected an issue with the Document Numbering Stream skipping numbers when set to default if the user changed the default stream to another stream and then went back to the default stream.

SIMSSCR‐767 7.8.37 Documents Corrected a misspelled word on Internal Transfer receipt. SIMSSCR‐837 7.8.37 Documents The prefix column width in the Document Stream utility was increased from 14 to 20

characters. SIMSSCR‐91 7.8.37 Documents Corrected an issue that could cause poor performance while running the Document 'Load

Scan Set' transaction. SIMSSCR‐1058 7.8.37 Facilities Due to NISPOM Conforming Change Number 1, the context sensitive NISPOM reference in

Host Facilities / Internal Inspections / NISPOM Checklist has been updated to reflect the changes to the NISPOM and now includes ISL 2013‐01, ISL 2013‐02, and ISL 2013‐03.

SIMSSCR‐362 7.8.37 Facilities Error occurs when searching for Performing Contract ID in Host and Other Facilities. SIMSSCR‐789 7.8.37 Facilities Other Facilities detail report shows default text 'Position' when no position is provided for

point of contact. SIMSSCR‐761 7.8.37 Facilities Corrected an exception in self‐inspections when selecting Inspected By personnel. SIMSSCR‐604 7.8.37 Personnel Added two new fields to the Employment tab of the personnel module: Active Directory

User Name and EDIPN. These fields appear on the personnel detail report but will not appear on the read‐only web page since they may be considered sensitive information.

SIMSSCR‐1104 7.8.37 Personnel Due to NISPOM Conforming Change Number 1, two new fields were added to the Home tab of the personnel module to identify those authorized to be listed as 'Classified By' on document records: Original Classifier and Derivative Classifier.

SIMSSCR‐302 7.8.37 Personnel The JPAS import no longer adding audit trail entries to the remarks tab in personnel. SIMSSCR‐364 7.8.37 Personnel Billet number tally now correctly behaving in Personnel Special Accesses. SIMSSCR‐372 7.8.37 Personnel Unhandled exception no longer occurs if 1) SA not selected and 2) billet count exceeded. SIMSSCR‐641 7.8.37 Personnel Error no longer appears when attempting to query on Clearance Case Investigator. SIMSSCR‐733 7.8.37 Personnel Personnel detail report no longer displays incorrect data for SCI subreport. SIMSSCR‐740 7.8.37 Personnel Add access to the PersonnelForeignContacts and PersonnelForeignContactDates tables for

custom reports.

SIMSSCR‐514 7.8.37 Visitors Corrected issue with Visitor Badge not printing from Visitor Module. SIMSSCR‐568 7.8.37 Visitors Corrected spelling error in Advanced Search dialog, 'Convience'. SIMSSCR‐576 7.8.37 Visitors Visitor Check In dialog no longer displays 1/1/1754 if no date is specified. SIMSSCR‐590 7.8.37 Visitors Corrected Visitor Check In Advanced Search issues. SIMSSCR‐611 7.8.37 Visitors Corrected an issue that caused an exception to occur when a Clearance Verify Method is

selected during the Visitor Check In Transaction. SIMSSCR‐618 7.8.37 Visitors Added the ability for users to store ID data in specific fields returned by AssureID and 3M

AT9000 scanner in VisitorVisits. SIMSSCR‐648 7.8.37 Visitors Error no longer occurs when SIMS user not assigned to a Data Group attempts to create a

new Visitor record using the 3M AT9000 scanner. SIMSSCR‐667 7.8.37 Visitors Issue with visitors output list title bar text not reset when input window closes has been

corrected. SIMSSCR‐669 7.8.37 Visitors Exception using Query Editor on VisitorVisits Building_Location_ID has been corrected. SIMSSCR‐760 7.8.37 Visitors Auto‐numbering has been expanded to include the Badge Number which allows users to

specify auto numbering values for the Badge Number issued during the visitor check‐in process.

SIMSSCR‐616 7.8.37 Common Error no longer occurs when creating a user account with a Login ID containing an apostrophe.

SIMSSCR‐695 7.8.37 Common Corrected Quick Report issue ‐ Delimiter dialog gives error ‐ [MESSAGE0]: Value of '0' is not valid for 'Value'. 'Value' should be between 'Minimum' and 'Maximum'.

SIMSSCR‐194 7.8.37 DoD Requests Requests.DoD.MainForm.GetRecords Table: RequestDoDArchive ‐ Column 'RequestDoDRecordType_ID' now allows DBNull.Value.

SIMSSCR‐617 7.8.37 DoD Requests DoD Visitor Input Form no longer displays database Special Access values that will not appear on the request because they are debriefed or not briefed and a briefing is required.

SIMSSCR‐622 7.8.37 DoD Requests The 'Address' label on the Facility Address Input Screen no longer appears truncated on some workstations.

SIMSSCR‐1134 7.8.37 DoD Requests In Utilities / System Customization / DoD Requests / Settings & Web Interface tab there's an option for 'Disable Sending Facility When JPAS Checkbox Enabled'. If this is checked, when a user attempts to submit a request through the OVR web interface they will receive a message stating that the FAX # is required but the field is disabled. A workaround is to turn off that setting in System Customization. This field is no longer required when that option is enabled in System Customization.

SIMSSCR‐1120 7.8.37 DoE Requests When generating a termination letter in the DoE module and selecting the option to select individual visitors, and not all visitors were selected, the termination letter printed correctly but it added a termination date for all visitors on the request instead of only those appearing on the termination letter. This only affected the DoE module, not the DoD module. This issue has been corrected.

SIMSSCR‐664 7.8.37 Containers Corrected an issue with the Phone number overflowing into empty records. SIMSSCR‐1127 7.8.37 Contracts Corrected a printing issue with the Contracts by Facility List report. The Government

Contracting Agency (GCA) information was not consistently printing the facility name and the Facility Address Contact Email Address and GCA POC Title were appearing in the wrong order.

SIMSSCR‐518 7.8.37 Contracts Corrected an error that occurred when printing the DD254 if section 12 did not contain information.

SIMSSCR‐768 7.8.37 Contracts Corrected an error on the printed copy of the DD254. "Typed Name of Certifying Offical" was spelled incorrectly.

SIMSSCR‐801 7.8.37 Contracts Corrected an issue where the DD254 tab retrieving incorrect address for Subcontractor facility record if the DD254 is created before the contract record is saved for the first time.

SIMSSCR‐858 7.8.37 Cog Offices The phone, fax, and address fields have been expanded to allow 45 characters. SIMSSCR‐666 7.8.37 IS Corrected the IS detail report so Custodian ID, Name, System Specific and ISSO values no

longer overflow into empty records. SIMSSCR‐925 7.8.37 Visit

Authorizations Removed the validation message regarding an invalid SSN format that appeared when the SSN was a valid format.

SIMSSCR‐1108 7.8.37 Forms Corrected a spelling error in the Forms module on the PAR input form, on tab 26‐30.

SIMSSCR‐27 7.8.16 Host Facilities Expanded the Host Facility module Internal Inspections to support JAFAN and collateral

self‐inspection forms. NISPOM and JAFAN self‐inspection forms can be customized, imported from and exported to Microsoft Excel, and contain hyperlinks matching each question to the appropriate section of the documentation.

SIMSSCR‐502 7.8.16 Visitors Users with the 3M AT9000 document scanner can now create new visitor records in the check‐in dialog. Data is automatically populated from the information on the visitor's ID.

SIMSSCR‐443 7.8.16 Conference & Meetings

When adding visitor or personnel records to the Attendees tab in the Conference & Meetings module, the picklists now support checkboxes allowing multiple records to be selected at one time.


The Conference picklist now displays the from and to dates, and contains new search fields for from date, to date, and POC.

SIMSSCR‐534 7.8.16 Contracts Corrected an issue that prevented the DoD version of the DD254 report from being overridden in the Custom Reports utility.

SIMSSCR‐533 7.8.16 Documents The time zone was moved to its own column on the Audit Trail tab of the Documents module to prevent the records from sorting incorrectly when the time/date column is selected.

SIMSSCR‐466 SIMSSCR‐571

7.8.16 Personnel Added a new Badge Type list and Initiated Date fields to the personnel badges section.

SIMSSCR‐590 7.8.16 Visitors Corrected an issue in the Visitor module Advanced Search button on the check‐in transaction dialog that caused too many rows to be returned. Basic searching was not affected.

SIMSSCR‐420 7.8.16 Documents The validation under Utilities / System Customization / Documents / Validations / 'Validate Contract's Document Receive / Generate Restrictions' was not functioning properly if unchecked. The validation message was still appearing when the option was unchecked.

SIMSSCR‐374 7.8.16 Containers Expanded support for retrieving the PersonnelSAs table by custom reports in the Containers module.

SIMSSCR‐355 7.8.16 Personnel Expanded support for retrieving related tables by custom reports for the Personnel Count by Level report.


Expanded support for retrieving related tables by custom reports in the Conference & Meetings module.

SIMSSCR‐264 7.8.16 Documents The Document module Destruction Certificate transaction receipt was rewritten to better support custom reports.

SIMSSCR‐267 7.8.16 Personnel Increased the size of the Personnel Position list field from 30 to 50 characters. SIMSSCR‐226 7.8.16 Documents The Load ScanSet / Make ScanSet transaction menu item in the Documents module has

been split into two menu items. Instead of taking the user to the standard transaction dialog, the user can save or load the records in the outputlist using a text file.

SIMSSCR‐224 7.8.16 Documents Added a new AllSAs column to the Documents module that displays all Document Special Accesses in the output list.

SIMSSCR‐169 7.8.16 Web Users with an expired password could still login to the read‐only web interface if the system was not using Active Directory or LDAP for authentication.

SIMSSCR‐564 7.8.16 Visitors Corrected an issue in v7.7.59 where the clearance, special access, and citizenship fields were not visible on the check‐in transaction dialog.

SIMSSCR‐419 7.8.16 Documents Corrected an issue in v7.7.58 that generated an error when a user inputs a Document record Document Control Number and then selects a Document Stream.

SIMSSCR‐158 7.7.59 Visitors The Visitor Check‐in Transaction now supports the 3M AT9000 document scanner and

AssureID document verification software. This allows guards to scan 2,500 different types of documents (drivers licenses, passports, military IDs) and determine if the document is authentic. This also speeds up the check‐in process by using OCR to automatically search for valid visit records as soon as the ID is placed on the scanner.

SIMSSCR‐342 7.7.59 Personnel Some records exported from JPAS can now contain string values such as 'N/A' in fields that previously contained only date values. This could cause an error to appear when performing the JPAS import transaction.

SIMSSCR‐293 7.7.59 Common All 3rd party DLLs included in the ClickOnce client are now digitally signed in order to support restricted environments that require DIACAP approval.

SIMSSCR‐22 7.7.59 Common Added alternative licensing to the standalone version for customers without USB ports. By default a FIPS 140 compliant hashing algorithm will be used unless the workstation is running Windows XP. If running Windows XP, a non‐FIPS compliant algorithm is used. Note that Microsoft ended mainstream support for Windows XP on 04/14/2009 and will end extended support on 08/04/2014. SIMS will continue to support XP workstations as long as possible.

SIMSSCR‐359 7.7.59 Common Users upgrading from v7.5 and earlier could receive an error running the standalone and server installers regarding a missing constraint (FK_VisitorVisits_ClearanceVerifyMethod).

SIMSSCR‐266 7.7.59 Common The components used for the Quick Reports Label Wizard, Task Scheduler utility, and JPAS Import Wizard has been upgraded to provide better support for Windows 8 workstations.

SIMSSCR‐251 7.7.59 Documents The document numbering stream option to start copy numbers at 0 instead of 1 was not working correctly when 'Use Copy Format for Originals' was enabled. The copy numbers always started at 0 which was the same as the original document number.

SIMSSCR‐199 7.7.59 Documents The 'Disposition' field was removed from the document summary report because it duplicated the information already appearing in the 'Status' column.

SIMSSCR‐339 7.7.59 Facilities When the option 'Require Unique Facility ID by Data Group for Records Above This Rank' is enabled, and a duplicate record is created through the copy process, the message appeared in an error dialog instead of a regular validation dialog.

SIMSSCR‐135 7.7.59 DoD Requests An updated control used to format phone number input on the DoD request OVR web page did not work on older Windows XP workstations.

SIMSSCR‐192 7.7.59 Personnel Added a new Personnel Badge Type list to the List Management utility.

SIMSSCR‐338 7.7.59 Common Corrected an issue in Advanced Data Field Defaults that could prevent users from specifying a default facility value for personnel special access records.

SIMSSCR‐353 7.7.59 Conferences When editing the from/to dates on the conference home tab, if the only change is made to the from or to date, and the user clicks the navigation button to move to another record, the user is not prompted to save their changes. Changes are saved if the user clicks the OK button instead, or if any other field in addition to the from/to dates are changed.

SIMSSCR‐45 7.7.59 Personnel In rare cases, users could receive an error indicating "Column '' does not belong to table ClearanceVerifyMethod" when saving personnel records.

SIMSSCR‐324 7.7.59 Containers Expanded the tables available to custom reports in the Container module to allow inclusion of personnel training records for container custodians.

SIMSSCR‐100 7.7.31 Personnel SIMS Client and SIMS Standalone now support running in native mode on both 32‐bit and

64‐bit operating systems. This provides increased performance for clients running on 64‐bit operating systems. Additionally, ClickOnce clients no longer receive an error message when performing a JPAS import on a 64‐bit operating system.

SIMSSCR‐115 7.7.31 Common The digital certificates used to sign the SIMS program and ClickOnce packages for v7.6 and earlier expires on 7/9/2012. The certificate has been renewed through 2015. This change primarily impacts ClickOnce users. When new users attempt to install the ClickOnce client for v7.6 and earlier, they may receive a warning that the publisher's certificate has expired.

SIMSSCR‐112 7.7.31 Documents Users can now open other modules while performing a document transaction without closing the transaction and starting over. Additionally, when a validation error occurs during a transaction, the user is no longer returned to the outputlist by default.

SIMSSCR‐102 7.7.31 Documents Performing an internal transfer, or reprinting an existing internal transfer receipt, will now generate multiple receipts when multiple custodians were assigned to the documents. Each receipt will only display the documents previously assigned to a particular custodian.

SIMSSCR‐69 7.7.31 Common Added support for SQL Server 2012. SIMSSCR‐142 7.7.31 Locks & Keys Improved transaction performance for Locks and Keys modules.

SIMSSCR‐113 7.7.31 Personnel The personnel detail and termination reports have been rewriten to use less space, and allow the user the print time option of selecting which subreports to include. NOTE: Users running customized versions of these reports should contact SIMS Support prior to upgrading.

SIMSSCR‐103 7.7.31 Documents & Keys

Added support for the Topaz T‐S460 (and related models) of electronic signature pads to capture signatures during document internal transfer transactions and key assignment transactions.

SIMSSCR‐138 7.7.31 Contracts Added a Contracts Listing Report to the Contract module to assist with DSS inspections. SIMSSCR‐39 7.7.31 Documents Added a Document Transaction Metrics to generate a count, by month, of document

transactions grouped by classification level. SIMSSCR‐49 7.7.31 Documents When performing a document destruction transaction the user has the option to clear the

custodian and container values. If those custodian or container records are deleted from SIMS, and a user performs an undestroy transaction on one of those documents, an error will be generated when the undestroyed document is assigned to the container or custodian that no longer exists.

SIMSSCR‐63 7.7.31 DoD Requests DoD visit requests using the naval messaging option now have the ability to send the report via e‐mail.

SIMSSCR‐72 7.7.31 Visitors When adding new visitors to a visit authorization record, the point of contact information from the visit authorization was not always appearing on the visitor record input form.

SIMSSCR‐82 7.7.31 Visitors When selecting the 'Badge Returned' button on the Visitor module Check‐Out dialog, certain visitors could cause the operation to take an extremely long time to complete.

SIMSSCR‐88 7.7.31 Personnel The JPAS tab in the personnel module could show a 'Last Modified Date' of '1/1/1754' if no date was recorded.

SIMSSCR‐117 7.7.31 Documents Corrected an issue that could cause reserved document numbers in a document numbering stream to be removed from the list if the user selects the reserved number then cancels adding the record.

SIMSSCR‐129 7.7.31 Documents The document numbering stream setting "Save Counter When Document Number Modified" was not always saving the old document number when a user modified it prior to saving the record.

SIMSSCR‐130 7.7.31 Common When a module contains more than 10,000 records, and record paging is enabled, the sort order on the outputlist was not always accurate due to a bug in how SQL Server calculated sequence numbers.

SIMSSCR‐134 7.7.31 Visitors Corrected an exception when performing a Query Editor search in the Visitors module on the facility name of the VisitorVisits.From_FacilityAddress_ID field.

SIMSSCR‐137 7.7.31 Personnel Performing a personnel clearance metrics summary report can generate an exception in rare cases.

SIMSSCR‐139 7.7.31 DoE Requests An exception window may appear prior to displaying the report preview window when performing a Termination and Regrade report in the DoE module.

SIMSSCR‐135 7.7.31 OVR Web The date controls used to validate phone number formats on the OVR input web pages have been replaced with a more modern component. The previous component was preventing the Sims.Web.dll file from being digitally signed.

SIMSSCR‐141 7.7.31 Utilities Date fields set to 'Current Date' in the Advanced Data Field Defaults utility could show an actual date value instead of 'Current Date' if other values are set for that field in different data groups. However, the correct date is used when creating records. This is a display issue only restricted to the utility module.


Performing a Quick Find for visitors by first and last name from the Visit Authorization module was performing an 'OR' operation when the query specified 'AND'.

SIMSSCR‐22 7.7.31 Common An alternative licensing scheme for customers who cannot provide an IP address or FQDN is now available. NOTE: Users who received these alternative licenses prior to v7.7.21 will need to obtain an updated license from SIMS Support prior to upgrading as the hash function used to generate the licenses changed between v7.6.24 and v7.7.29.

SIMSSCR‐26 7.7.31 Common An alternative licensing scheme for standalone customers who cannot use a USB key is now available. NOTE: Users who received these alternative licenses prior to v7.7.21 will need to obtain an updated license from SIMS Support prior to upgrading as the hash function used to generate the licenses changed between v7.6.24 and v7.7.29.

8605 7.6.23 Visit

Authorizations Corrected an issue introduced in v7.6.16 that could prevent visitor records from being added to Visit Authorization records. Corrected an issue where selecting 'Yes' to the edit the record after copying prevented the visitor special accesses from being copied to the new records. Also improved performance when switching tabs in the Visit Authorization record with a large number of visitors.

8342 7.6.23 Visitors Added Locks and Keys to the Visitor module detail report. 8583 7.6.23 Visitors The 'Active' checkbox filter on the Visitor check‐in transaction was not filtering terminated

visitors if they had a valid visit period or visit authorization. 8577 7.6.23 Visitors Added a System Customization option to allow filtering of archived visitors from the web

interface. 8482 7.6.23 Documents The Internal Transfer Receipt Returned transaction was not updating the Signed for Date

on the document home tab unless the status was 'Transfer: In Transit'. 8492 7.6.23 Common Added a new 'Print' button in Utilities / List Management to allow printing of all list data. 8083 7.6.23 Common Added a new 'Print' button in Utilities / Special Accesses to print a list of all accesses

including umbrella accesses and which modules they apply to. 8394 7.6.23 Common Added a warning dialog when a facility is selected and the Next Check date has been

exceeded. This is a warning only and matches the behavior of SIMS v6. This message can be disabled in System Customization for both Host and Other Facilities.

8585 7.6.23 Common When copying Containers, Conferences, IS, DOD, and Visit Authorization records, users are now asked if they want personnel/visitor records copied as well.

8586 7.6.23 DoD Requests Added the 'Contract Task' field to the DoD request detail web page. 8595 7.6.23 Conferences Corrected a rare issue that could result in an error message when selecting 'Add

Predesignated Visitors' to a conference record and some of the visitors added already exist in the attendee list.

8609 7.6.23 Visitors Corrected an issue that could prevent visitor photos from appearing on the visitor web page.

8607 7.6.23 Visitors Added 'Termination Date' to the visitors web page. 8377 7.6.23 Personnel Corrected an issue where non‐managers who are not assigned to a data group, and have

the user property enabled to view SSN values, are able to view SSN values in the outputlist but not when the personnel record is edited.

8589 7.6.23 Locks & Keys Major performance improvement adding Key Hooks when the number of Key Hooks exceeds several thousand rows.

8496 7.6.23 Locks & Keys Added a System Customization option to prevent generation of Lock and Key transaction receipts.

8494 7.6.23 Locks & Keys Improved performance of Lock and Key transactions when either module contains a large number of rows (20k+).

8573 7.6.16 Documents When performing a document return to accountability transaction, and one of the

documents involved belongs to a different data group, and that data group had fields specified as required in Advanced Data Field Defaults, the required field validation was not being enforced for every data group.

8575 7.6.16 DoD Requests When performing a termination report and selecting the option to identify individual visitors for termination, the 'To Date' for the request could be set to the current date even though all visitors on that request have not been terminated.

8576 7.6.16 DoD Requests When performing a termination or regrade report, and the request contains a validation error such as a visitor not possessing a required special access, the correct validation error would appear and prevent the transaction from completing, but the report was still displayed. If a validation error occurs, the user is now notified that the requested regrade or termination report cannot be displayed due to the previous validation failure.

8566 7.6.16 Documents Corrected issue with umbrella special accesses. When a parent special access was assigned to a personnel record, and child special access was assigned to a document, users may receive a validation error when assigning the personnel record as the document custodian.

8569 7.6.16 DoD Requests When users are designated as visit request administrators for multiple data groups, the Approve and Reject buttons are now enabled/disabled when the Save button is also enabled/disabled.

7637 7.6.13 Common The 'Change Password' icon is no longer visible when users login using LDAP / Active Directory authentication.

7826 7.6.13 Common Added an option to force SIMS users (LDAP excluded) to change their password during the next login session. This can be set globally under Utilities / User Management / Users / Password Settings, or individually on each User Properties dialog.

7981 7.6.13 Common Corrected potential issue where database exceptions could prevent database audit trail records from being created.

8296 7.6.13 Common Corrected issue with SSN values not appearing on custom reports when SSN encryption is enabled in the personnel or visitor modules.

8301 7.6.13 Common Custom LDAP / Active Directory paths can now be specified for individual data groups, in addition to specifying a global authentication path that applies to all users.

8394 7.6.13 Common Added warning dialog when using the facility picklist to select a facility record that fails the SPP Update (Host) or Verified Date (Other) validations. This is a warning message only and the user will still be allowed to select the specified facility.

8488 7.6.13 Common All record selection picklists have been updated so that the cursor is initially placed in the first field in the dialog. Picklists affected are special accesses, personnel clearance cases, keys, facility addresses, destruction methods, containers, and conferences.

8541 7.6.13 Common Corrected issue upgrading from versions prior to v7.4 that could cause custom and additional reports to be removed during the upgrade process.

8548 7.6.13 Common Corrected exception that occurs when a user double clicks on an empty row in the personnel and visitor picklists.

8533 7.6.13 Conferences & Meetings

When creating a new conference record and selecting 'Print Attendee List' prior to saving the record, an incorrect dialog was displayed which forced the user to save and close the record prior to generating the report.

8408 7.6.13 Containers Added new System Customization validation for containers called 'Verify No Active Documents Assigned Prior to Marking Container Inactive'. When enabled, and a container is marked as inactive, if one or more documents are still assigned to the container the user will receive a validation error when saving the record. If the document is archived, destroyed, or externally transferred it will not trigger the validation. If a container is marked as inactive, with the exception of checking for valid active documents, all other container validations will be skipped (such as combination expiration). If a database audit is run from the Utilities module, all inactive containers that still have active documents will be included.

8520 7.6.13 Contracts When copying a DD254 record in the contracts module and then immediately printing the copy, SIMS prompts the user to save the record before printing. The save operation caused the focus to change so that the copied DD254 was no longer highlighted. The currently highlighted DD254 will now remain highlighted after saving the contract record.

7726 7.6.13 Documents Added 'Courier', 'TDP #', and 'Property #' fields to the documents module input forms. 7960 7.6.13 Documents Changed the document barcode inventory so that the 'Last Inventoried' date is only

updated when the document was found assigned to the correct container or custodian. During the upgrade, any documents that do not contain an inventory transaction audit trail entry will not have their 'Last Inventoried' date changed regardless of the value. If a document has one or more inventory transaction audit trail entries, and none indicate the document was assigned to the correct container or custodian, the 'Last Inventoried' date will be set to null. If a document has one or more inventory transaction audit trail entries, and at least one indicates the document was assigned to the correct container or custodian, the 'Last Inventoried' date will be set to the date of the most recent transaction in which the document was found in the correct location.

7961 7.6.13 Documents Added 'Signed for Date', 'Accountable', 'Loaned', and 'Number of Enclosures' fields to the document detail report.

8343 7.6.13 Documents Corrected an exception that occurs in rare cases when attempting to copy document records.

8472 7.6.13 Documents When performing a document copy transaction, the outputlist will automatically filter to show only the original document and any copies created, instead of displaying the entire document list.

8473 7.6.13 Documents Expanded the amount of space for 'Package #' on the document module Return to Accountability transaction receipt.

8480 7.6.13 Documents When performing a document external transfer transaction, the suspense date is automatically updated every time the transfer date is changed. The default date range is specified under Utilities / System Customization / Time Periods.

8486 7.6.13 Documents Selecting the 'Make Scanset' option in the document module transaction dialog no longer closes the dialog after creating the scanset. This allows users to continue performing transactions on the same set of documents without having to reload the scanset.

8524 7.6.13 Documents Added System Customization option to suppress the receipt window that appears following a document transaction. A record of the transaction receipt is still saved to the affected records.

8532 7.6.13 Documents Corrected issue with 'Accountable Documents by Custodian' document module report that could cause the report to return no records.

8553 7.6.13 Documents Improved the record selection rules for selecting documents under the 'Random Audit' document module transaction.

8557 7.6.13 Documents Corrected an error that occurs when selecting the Load Scanset / Make Scanset transaction in the document module menu when no records are selected.

7502 7.6.13 DoD Requests Termination and regrade letters are now saved to the audit trail in PDF format for easier reprinting.

7921 7.6.13 DoD Requests DoD termination and regrade reports can now be overridden using the Custom Reports utility.

8245 7.6.13 DoD Requests Custom images defined under Utilities / Custom Images will now appear on custom DoD report overrides.

8360 7.6.13 DoD Requests Added a 'Naval Messaging' report to the list of DoD request report formats. In order to select this report, you must enable the naval messaging option under System Customization / DoD Requests / Settings & Validations.

8399 7.6.13 DoD Requests If the 'Default Security Officer' for a DoD request is different from the facility security officer on the 'From Facility', a dialog will be displayed only once when the new record is created, instead of displaying the dialog each time the user switches input tabs.

8450 7.6.13 DoD Requests In the last release of SIMS we added a'JPAS' checkbox the DoD request input form. Enabling this box disabled the 'Send to Facility' tab so that users would not be required to populate that information. In this release we added a new System Customization option for 'Disable Sending Facility When JPAS Checkbox Enabled'. This option affects the Windows client and the OVR input web page. This allows customers to choose whether or not facility information will be specified if a request has JPAS checked.

8457 7.6.13 DoD Requests The OVR e‐mail notifications used the contact name and phone specified for each destination facility instead of using the contact override fields (if specified) on the parent request record.

8459 7.6.13 DoD Requests When opening a DoD request not marked 'contractual', the user receives a warning message. A new System Customization option has been added to make this warning dialog optional.

8523 7.6.13 DoD Requests The 'Contact Override' name and phone fields on the Send to Facilities tab of the DoD request input form were not appearing on reports and e‐mails unless both name and phone were specified. They will now appear on reports and e‐mails if only name or phone is specified, and the original contact field from the destination facility will be displayed in place of the blank field.

8563 7.6.13 DoD Requests When selecting a facility record from the OVR input web page, or viewing a query result on the facility web page, if the facility record contained FSO information for both Host and Other Facilities, the Other Facility FSO was displayed incorrectly for Host Facility FSO. This issue only affected the web interface.

8565 7.6.13 DoD Requests Increased the size of the DoD Request contact name and phone fields to 120 characters. 8535 7.6.13 Facilities Added 'Convenience Code' and 'Verified Date' to the fields available in the facility Quick

Report utility. For Other Facilities, the 'Verified Date' field will appear as 'SPP Date'. 8526 7.6.13 Import Corrected SIMS v7 to v7 import utility when a user references a container audit trail that

has been deleted from the database.

8077 8463

7.6.13 Import Corrected issue in the SIMS import utility (v7 to v7) where certain facility address records could not be imported. This only impacts the utility for moving data between instances of SIMS v7. It does not impact users upgrading from SIMS v6 to v7.

8463 8077

7.6.13 Import Improved the ability of the import engine and import/export client transactions to handle matching of facility address records when moving data between two instances of SIMS v7.

8392 7.6.13 Installer Users upgrading between different versions of SIMS v7 could experience SQL timeouts on slow or overloaded servers if the database is very large. Increased the SQL timeout value when performing a SIMS v7 update.

8264 7.6.13 Locks & Keys Lock records involved in a 'Lock Loaned' transaction were not appearing in green in the outputlist. Performing a 'Lock Retrieved' transaction will cause the record to be displayed in black.

8265 7.6.13 Locks & Keys Key records involved in a 'Key Loaned' transaction were not appearing in green in the outputlist. Performing a 'Key Retrieved' transaction will cause the record to be displayed in black.

8365 7.6.13 Locks & Keys Several changes were made to the Locks and Keys transactions to make them consistent with how they operated in SIMS v6. The 'Key Destroyed' transaction now clears the 'holder' and 'issued date' fields. The 'Key Lost' transaction now clears the 'issued date' field (the 'holder' field was already cleared). The 'Key Retrieved' transaction now clears the key holder field, marks the key as active, and changes the status to 'not assigned'.

8366 7.6.13 Locks & Keys Made several changes to make Locks and Keys in SIMS v7 function more like SIMS v6: (i) copying records no longer duplicates the history, the custodian is cleared, and the status is set to 'not assigned', (ii) loan transactions now set the issued date to the loaned date, (iii) retrieved transactions now change status to 'not assigned'.

8485 7.6.13 Locks & Keys Expanded error handling when a constraint error appears in the Locks and Keys module to identify exactly which database relation is causing the exception.

8494 7.6.13 Locks & Keys Improved transaction performance in the Locks and Keys modules.

8496 7.6.13 Locks & Keys Added System Customization option to suppress the receipt window that appears following a Lock or Key transaction. A PDF copy of the transaction receipt is still saved to the affected records.

8497 7.6.13 Locks & Keys Users with a large number of Keys records assigned to Key Rings and Key Hooks could receive too many records returned during Quick Find operations.

8502 7.6.13 Locks & Keys All transaction report dialogs are non‐modal (can be minimized) with the exception of the receipts in the Locks and Keys modules. Lock and Key transaction receipts are now non‐modal to be consistent with other modules.

8537 7.6.13 Locks & Keys Added 'Key Holder' option to the Key Retrieved transaction dialog. If this option is not specified during the transaction, the key will be returned to 'not assigned' status and the key holder column will be blank. If a new key holder is specified, the key will be returned to 'assigned' status and the new key holder assigned to the records in the transaction.

8538 7.6.13 Locks & Keys Performing a Lock Retrieved transaction prior to a Lock Loaned transaction no longer clears the Lock Holder value.

8540 7.6.13 Locks & Keys Corrected potential exception when copying a single record in the locks module and selecting the option to edit the record prior to saving.

7786 7.6.13 Personnel Added the 'Personnel Incident Report' to the personnel module. Users without access to the incidents module are not allowed to execute this report from the personnel module.

8042 7.6.13 Personnel Added 'Billet Type' to the special access listview on the special accesses tab of the personnel module input form.

8089 7.6.13 Personnel Relabeled the 'Passport #' fields in the personnel module input form and reports to 'Passport/Verification #' and expanded the fields to 48 characters.

8294 7.6.13 Personnel Expanded auto numbering support for the personnel module columns: PersonnelID, EmployeeNumber, and Barcode.

8464 7.6.13 Personnel Added list of contracts associated with a personnel record to the read‐only personnel web page.

8490 7.6.13 Personnel The 'Edit Batch' button on the special access tab of the personnel input form failed to update the contract values when a user attempted to update the contract value on multiple special access records.

8516 7.6.13 Personnel Modified the behavior of the 'Edit Batch' button on the Special Access tab of the personnel input form so that only one field in each special access will change per operation. The previous behavior of changing multiple fields caused confusion as to which changes were being applied.

8521 7.6.13 Personnel Updated the personnel module Clearance Processing Metrics Report to correctly handle inverted dates such as the 'Brief Date' preceding the 'e‐QIP Sent Date' because the personnel clearance was due for reinvestigation.

8481 8504

7.6.13 Personnel Updated the personnel module Contractor Position Roster Log to use the latest format.

8489 7.6.13 SCI Corrected exception when a personnel record assigned to a SCI request contains a null value in the ModFullName column (only affects imported data).

8515 7.6.13 Utilities When linking SIMS accounts to LDAP / Active Directory accounts under Utilities / User Management, the LDAP accounts are now sorted in alphabetical order.

8273 7.6.13 Visit Authorization

Visitor records attached to a visit authorization record could appear in italics even if the visitor records contained no pending changes.


Added 'Add Batch' button to the visitor special access input form to provide similar functionality already available in the personnel module.


When a visit authorization record is copied, a note is added to the remarks field to indicate the record was created as a copy and included the date and time of the transaction. The name of the SIMS user performing the copy transaction is now included in this note.


When copying a single visit authorization record and selecting 'yes' when prompted to edit the record prior to saving, visitors were not being copied to the new record. When copying a visit authorization the user will now receive a prompt asking if they want the visitors copied to the new visit authorization.

8054 7.6.13 Web OVR web users using the data group authentication bypass feature are no longer asked to login if the session times out.

8506 7.6.13 Workflow Corrected a data group issue when reports are scheduled for execution by the Task Scheduler utility. When a data group was specified for a scheduled task, the report could contain fewer records than when the report is executed directly from the client.

8527 7.6.13 Workflow Reports executed from the Task Scheduler utility did not always sort in the expected order. Task Scheduler reports now default to the sort order of the user who added the report to the Task Scheduler utility. If the outputlist for that user has not been changed, the default sort order will be used. The default sort order is the first column that appears in the outputlist when a particular module is first opened.

8442 7.5.35 Common Added support for the new JPAS CSV file format. 8430 7.5.34 Common Corrected issue sending DoD termination and regrade letters via FAX where the regrade

value displayed the old clearance instead of the new value. This only affects letters sent via FAX directly from SIMS. Printed letters were unaffected.

8422 7.5.32 Common When creating a new record, if the user selects the print icon in the input form toolbar before saving the record, the resulting report will include all records in the outputlist.

8423 7.5.32 Common Document return to accountability transaction would not complete if both the custodian and container fields were marked as required field in the Advanced Data Field Defaults utility.

8391 7.5.32 Web Corrected cosmetic issue with a <font> tag appearing in the container detail web page. 7652 7.5.30 Common The multi‐user licensing component has been replaced in v7.5 in order to comply with the

Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS). This publication defines cryptographic standards for software used by Federal agencies. The license component upgrade also improves support for running SIMS on a virtual machine. You must obtain a new multi‐user license from SIMS technical support prior to installing the v7.5 update. Licensing for the standalone and lite versions of SIMS are not affected by this change.

6895 7.5.30 Common There are now optional checkboxes next to each record in the module outputlists. This enables users to select records across multiple pages for reports and transactions.

8387 7.5.30 Common Databases containing less than 20,000 records total will have the outputlist paging option disabled by default. This makes the default interface similar to that of SIMS v6 where users can scroll between all records instead of moving one page at a time.

7512 7.5.30 Common Added a 'Current Date' option to the query editor that allows queries to use the current date plus or minus a specified number of days.

8339 7.5.30 Common Expanded the auto‐numbering counter to support values up to ten digits in length. 6564 7.5.30 Common Added the ability to turn off any input form tab in any module. Previously this capability

was restricted to the personnel module. 7253 7.5.30 Common Added the ability to use the 'Select All' menu option to highlight all records in the

outputlist as long as record paging is disabled. 7387 7.5.30 Common Added the ability to send e‐mail only tasks using the Task Scheduler utility. Previous

versions required users to specify a report layout to be attached to the e‐mail. 7727 7.5.30 Common When specifying e‐mail credentials under System Customization, users are no longer

required to specify a password for the outgoing e‐mail account. 8260 7.5.30 Common Added a new Barcode3of9 field to the personnel, document, and container modules.

Previously the barcode column was modified at print time to start and end with an asterisk (*) to ensure it was readable by barcode scanners. Now the 'Barcode' field will print without asterisks and the 'Barcode3of9' field will print with asterisks. Note that this field does not exist in the database. Both are populated from the same barcode column in the database.

8301 7.5.30 Common Added the ability to specify individual Active Directory / LDAP authentication paths on a per‐user basis, overriding the global path specified in System Customization.

7342 7.5.30 Common The Task Scheduler utility will now update the task list in the background to provide more up to date information on recently executed tasks.

7637 7.5.30 Common Disabled the 'Change Password' option when LDAP authentication is enabled. 8139 7.5.30 Common The login failure error messages have been reworded to be more user friendly. 8300 7.5.30 Personnel Added a new personnel module report titled 'Briefed Personnel Chart' that displays a bar

graph indicating the number of personnel briefed in one or more selected special accesses.

8201 7.5.30 Personnel Added a 'Supervisor E‐mail' field to the employment tab of the personnel module. 8105 7.5.30 Personnel Added primary clearance polygraph fields to the personnel module outputlist. 8167 7.5.30 Personnel Added 'SF‐312 Brief Date' to the personnel clearance input forms and reports. 8102 7.5.30 Personnel The 'Employee Status' field is now visible on the read‐only personnel web page. 8106 7.5.30 Personnel Added a System Customization option to prevent terminated personnel from appearing on

the read‐only personnel web pages. When this option is disabled, terminated personnel will appear on the web page picklists but will not be selectable. When this option is enabled, terminated personnel will not appear.

8107 7.5.30 Personnel The 'Show All' button on the special access tab of the personnel module input form is now enabled for read‐only users. This only applies if the System Customization option is enabled for 'Show Only Personnel Special Accesses That Are Briefed, Not Debriefed, and Not Denied When Opening Record'.

7622 7.5.30 Personnel Added an option to the JPAS discrepancy report to show personnel that are in SIMS but not in the JPAS spreadsheet.

7881 7.5.30 Personnel Added a 'Certificate of Completion' field to the personnel module training records. Users can specify a path to a file that contains the actual training certification document and can access it directly from the SIMS personnel record.

8218 7.5.30 Personnel Clarified the text for the personnel module special access validation to read 'Personnel Special Access XYZ requires personnel to be a U.S. Citizen'.

8132 7.5.30 Personnel Debriefed, non‐briefed, and denied special accesses are no longer displayed on the read‐only personnel web page.

7495 7.5.30 Personnel Modified the JPAS import transaction dialog to remove the extra summary dialog that appears at the end of the import transaction.

7805 7.5.30 Personnel Depending on a user's access right to JPAS, the exported Excel file could have 'Yes' for a SCI access they are not cleared to see. The JPAS import transaction will now ignore this value instead of treating it as a special access name.

8099 7.5.30 Visitors Added the ability to exclude certain user from the validation 'Display Warning When Visitor Has Visited More Than X Times in Y Days'. This option can be found in the List Management utility in the Visitors / Visitor Type section.

8137 7.5.30 Visitors Added a new User Management property to allow users read‐only access to the visitor module, but read‐write access to the visitor check‐in/check‐out transactions.

8302 7.5.30 Visitors Added the visitor badge information to the visitor read‐only web page. 7778 7.5.30 Documents Added a new 'Scan Barcodes' option to the document module transaction dialog. This

allows users to rapidly scan document barcodes to identify documents for a transaction. Previously the user had to wait for each document to be located by the system before the next barcode could be scanned. This new option is on the right side of the transaction dialog below the 'Make Scanset' and 'Load Scanset' buttons.

7879 7.5.30 Documents Added a 'Change Project' option to the document module contract transfer transaction. 8049 7.5.30 DoD Requests Added a new 'JPAS Visit' checkbox and 'SMO Code' textbox to the OVR input webpage.

When JPAS Visit is checked, the facility selection controls are disabled and the user is prompted to provide a SMO code. The 'Send to FAX' field is also disabled. On the Windows client, checking 'JPAS Visit' on the home tab will disable the 'Send to Facilities' tab and allow the user to enter a SMO code. There is also a new report format for JPAS visits that displays the SMO code instead of destination facility information.

7860 7.5.30 DoD Requests Added a new validation labeled 'Require All Visitors to have a Clearance Level >= Request Classification Level'. When enabled, all facilities listed under the 'Sent To Facilities' tab must have a facility clearance level equal to or greater than the classification level assigned to the visit request.

7755 7.5.30 DoD Requests Added option to System Customization to allow the assignment of a default classification level to visit requests submitted through the unclassified OVR input web page. If no value is specified, the system will default to 'unclassified'.

8026 7.5.30 DoD Requests The Request Status fields built into the DoD module list management (approved, archived, pending, rejected, transmitted) can no longer be edited. This is required so that when a visit request is transmitted via FAX or e‐mail, the correct status value will be available. Users can still add additional status values.

8209 7.5.30 Contracts Added a 'DD254 Subcontractor Listing by Facility' report to the contracts module. 8298 7.5.30 Contracts Added the Performing Facility Addresses to the contract module detail report.

8000 7.5.30 Contracts The DD254 listview in the contract module input form has been expanded to allow two lines for each DD254. This allows the subcontractor name and ID to appear in the listview. Previously users had to open each DD254 record to see the subcontractor information.

8225 7.5.30 Contracts Changed the Contract End Date validations to include Closed Out criteria. Instead of only verifying that the contract end date has not passed, the validations will also check to see if the contract has been closed out.

8355 7.5.30 Contracts Added the 'Contract Type' field to the read‐only contract web page. 7779 7.5.30 Facilities Added the 'Convenience Code' field to the facility Quick Find and Query Editor tools. 3598 7.5.30 Facilities Added the ability to add points of contact to the Host Facility module. 3803 7.5.30 Facilities Added the ability to select both personnel and visitors for the facility points of contact tab.

8410 7.5.30 Common Improved performance when saving records that have an extrememly large number of related records (e.g, a document assigned to a container with 1000 personnel on the container access list).

8001 7.5.30 Common Data group names can now contain special characters such as apostrophes. 8124 7.5.30 Common Read‐only users can now scroll in text fields (i.e., Remarks) when there is too much

information to appear in the window at one time. Previously the vertical scroll bars were disabled for read‐only users.

8081 7.5.30 Common Updated the facility picklist so that pressing the enter key when the focus is on a filter field will automatically select the 'Show Filtered' button. If a record in the list is highlighted, pressing enter will select the highlighted record.

8354 7.5.30 Common When editing a task in the Task Scheduler utility, changing the schedule status from recurring to non‐recurring could cause the status to remain at recurring.

8392 7.5.30 Common Performing a server upgrade on an extremely large database could generate a timeout exception if the server was not fast enough to complete the upgrade. The timeout value has been extended to allow for upgrading the database regardless of the server speed.

8368 7.5.30 Conferences Corrected an exception when assigning a visitor to a conference and the facility associated with that visitor has a null value for 'Facility ID'.

8380 7.5.30 Conferences Corrected potential exception when copying a conference record that contains visitors attached to a visit authorization, and that visit authorization is linked to a conference record other than the one being copied.

8343 7.5.30 Documents If the document validation 'document date <= document received date' is enabled, and a document is copied that violates this rule, the validation is not displayed to the user the transaction begins. Users will now be asked to correct the issue before the copy transaction begins.

8274 7.5.30 Documents When adding new author values from the document module input form, values that were recently added were not appearing in the selection list until the next time the client started.

8248 7.5.30 Documents The random audit transaction now automatically excludes archived documents even if they appear in the outputlist.

8193 7.5.30 Documents Several document transactions displayed the validation error in an exception window instead of the user friendly validation dialog. These validations are 'Require (U) at the end of document title', 'Document Date <= Received Date', 'Received/Generated Date <= Signed For Date', and 'Document Date <= Declassification Date'.

8396 7.5.30 Documents The word 'disposition' was spelled incorrectly on the document module input form. 8054 7.5.30 DoD Requests The contract picklist on the OVR input web page has been modified to be consistent with

the contract picklist behavior in the Windows client. If the System Customization option "Do not show OVR picker records that are archived (Contracts and Facilities)" is enabled, contract records that are archived or closed out will not appear in the web picklist. If that option is disabled, contract records that are archived or closed out will appear in the web picklist but will not be selectable.

8303 7.5.30 DoD Requests When printing DoD reports, the visitor clearance level override was ignored, and the original visitor clearance level was appearing on the report.

8245 7.5.30 DoD Requests Report logos added to the custom images utility were not appearing on DoD module reports unless the report itself was a customized version provided by SIMS technical support.

7496 7.5.30 DoD Requests When printing DoD reports, the endorsement information was being pulled directly from the selected facility record instead of using the endorsement fields saved with the visit request record. This required changing the endorsement address information in the facility module instead of making the changes in the DoD record.

8296 7.5.30 DoD Requests When SSN, Birth Date, or Birth Place encryption is enabled in the database, those values were not appearing on certain DoD request reports unless an override value was entered in the request for each visitor.

8359 7.5.30 Incidents Corrected potential exception when entering multiple records in the incidents module. 8375 7.5.30 IS Corrected issue where the AISTrail table was not populated in Quick Reports. 8287 7.5.30 Locks & Keys Corrected an exception when performing a Key Assigned transaction to a visitor record

using a SIMS account that is not assigned to a data group. 8253 7.5.30 Locks & Keys If a validation error occurred during the Key Assigned or Key Loaned transactions, a

validation message was displayed to the user but the transaction still completed. The transaction will no longer complete until the validation error is corrected.

8261 7.5.30 Locks & Keys The lock status field was not automatically updated based on the transaction. 8275 7.5.30 Locks & Keys Corrected potential exception when deleting the key hook assigned to the key currently

being edited. Workaround is to first unassign the key hook, then delete the key hook. 8340 7.5.30 Personnel Corrected an exception when modifying a personnel clearance task if the 'From Assigned'

option is selected and the 'Expected Completion' date precedes the 'Assigned' date. 8377 7.5.30 Personnel Non‐managers who are not assigned to a data group, but who are granted the right to see

SSN values for personnel in member data groups, were unable to see SSN values on the personnel input form even though they would appear on the personnel module outputlist.

8339 7.5.30 Personnel Corrected a standalone‐only exception when performing a personnel module query on the employment status field and then executing a quick report.

8403 7.5.30 Personnel Subreports were not appearing on the personnel termination report. This only affected v7.4.

8384 7.5.30 Visitors The custom report utility allows multiple reports to be specified for printing a badge during a visitor check‐in transaction. However, the user was only allowed to select a single badge report during the check‐in transaction.

7893 7.4.18 Common Corrected timeout and performance issues when running the Document module Return

Receipt transaction on a very large database.

8284 7.4.16 Common Updated training video documentation.

6832 7.4.15 Common Added an option to include the total number of records appearing in a Quick Report. 7004 7.4.15 Common Text fields with unlimited size, like Document SCG and Remarks, are now available in the

Quick Reports utility. 7086 7.4.15 Common Added ability to insert images, such as company logo, from the Custom Images utility

module on any report. 7453 7.4.15 Common Added new 'Time Out Override' property to the User Management utility. This allows

individual users to be exempt from the system wide inactivity timeout. Also added tabs to the User Management dialog to make settings easier to navigate.

7501 7.4.15 Common Added System Customization option to maximize the SIMS Client window upon startup. This is primarily for ClickOnce users, since regular clients already had this capability by modifying the program shortcut.

7510 7.4.15 Common Expanded Data Field Defaults utility to allow any field to be designated as read‐only. 7713 7.4.15 Common Added System Customization option to enable/disable record paging on a per module

basis. 7765 7.4.15 Common Added additional export option to Quick Reports to allow user to specify any delimiter

type when exporting to Excel in addition to allowing fixed width columns. 7771 7.4.15 Common Added System Customization option to allow user customization of the Document module

barcode inventory transaction messages. 7883 7.4.15 Common Added ability to export any report to Excel, Word, or PDF format using a toolbar button on

the report preview window. 7907 7.4.15 Common Added the ability to run SIMS Standalone in native mode on a 64‐bit operating system.

7911 7.4.15 Common Added 'Badge Code' field to special access records. This allows users to specify alternate values to appear on badges or custom reports when they don't want the actual access name printed.

7921 7.4.15 Common Added ability to include subreports when adding custom report overrides. 7953 7.4.15 Common Added ability to designate user accounts as archived and prevent access to database. 7973 7.4.15 Common Updated utility module for Additional Reports to allow print preview, PDF, Word, or Excel

options to be specified for each report. If more than one option is selected, user will have opportunity to select format when printing.

7983 7.4.15 Common All input form ListView controls can now be sorted by clicking on the column header. 8046 7.4.15 Common Added new user property labeled 'Allow special access visibility across data groups'. All

existing users with the Enterprise Coordinator right assigned will have this option enabled by default. This allows greater control over whether or not special access values are filtered by data group.

8094 7.4.15 Common Added 'Prime Contract ID' and 'Program Name' columns to the contract picklist. Also added the capability to filter the picklist on those values.

8165 7.4.15 Common Added ability for users to insert custom read‐only rules by modifying the SQL stored procedure used to update rows in the database. In order for the exception to be handled correctly in the client, the stored procedure must call RAISERROR() and enclose the visible part of the error message within <SimsDataPolicy></SimsDataPolicy> tags.

6972 7.4.15 Contracts Added 'Close Out' checkbox to the Contract module Additional Info tab. Added new Close Out Report to the Contract module.

7465 7.4.15 Contracts Continuation pages for the DD254 report now display the section header at the top of each page.

7791 7.4.15 Contracts Added new Public Release information to Additional Info tab of the Contract module. Fields include contact name, phone, address, release title, release to, and request date.

7587 7.4.15 Documents Added new 'Display Former Custodian on Receipt' option to the document destruction transaction dialog. When combined with the 'Clear Custodian' option, this allows the former custodian to appear on the destruction certificate.

7827 7.4.15 Documents Added new Accountable Document Listings report to show the number of accountable documents assigned for each custodian.

7831 7.4.15 Documents Added option to export the list of exceptions to a CSV file when performing a document barcode inventory.

8095 7.4.15 Documents Added a new Document module transaction titled Manual Inventory. This transaction updates the Last Inventoried date for all documents currently visible in the outputlist.

7921 7.4.15 DoD Requests Added ability to override the DoD module termination and regrade reports with a custom report.

7950 7.4.15 DoD Requests Added System Customization option 'Visit Request End Date on or Before Contract Scheduled Completion Date'. Validation is applied when creating DoD visit requests from the Windows or web clients.

8173 7.4.15 DoD Requests Added System Customization option to make the report preview window optional when sending a request via FAX or e‐mail.

7899 7.4.15 Import Added ability to use SQL tables as an import data source in addition to text, Excel, and Access files.

8073 7.4.15 IS Added new System Customization option for 'Require unique values for hardware serial numbers'. Unique barcodes are required to perform barcode inventories, and previously this check could not be disabled if users did not perform barcode inventories and wanted to create duplicate values.

6479 7.4.15 Personnel Added a 'Cancel' button when prompted for a clearance action related to a personnel clearance change.

6959 7.4.15 Personnel Added a major new Personnel Clearance Processing Metrics report that allows tracking of initial and periodic clearance investigations. Statistics are generated showing the processing duration by clearance level, data group, and initial vs. periodic investigation. A training video has been added to explain the new functionality.

7966 7.4.15 Personnel Added a new 'All SA' column to the Personnel module outputlist and Quick Reports. This field lists all the assigned personnel special accesses where no brief date is required. If a brief date is required, the access name is displayed only if the briefing date is equal to or less than the current date, and there is either no debrief date or the debrief date is in the future.

8066 7.4.15 Personnel Added 'Access Ceased Date', 'Access Level', and 'Authority' fields to the contract entry dialog and ListView in the personnel module.

8145 7.4.15 Personnel The Personnel Clearance Task List now displays the sequence number in the first column of the ListView. This makes it easier to determine the sort order.

7618 7.4.15 SCI Added 'Through' checkbox for facilities assigned to SCI Outgoing Requests, similar to the capability already found in the DoD request module.

7970 7.4.15 Workflow Added new System Customization option to allow users to modify the regular expression used to determine if an e‐mail address is valid. This prevents the workflow service from failing when invalid from/to addresses are specified.

8122 7.4.15 Visitors Added several new fields to Visitor special accesses: billet type, billet title, grant date, brief date, next brief date, debrief date, rebrief date, and denied date.

8235 7.4.15 Workflow Corrected issue that caused the SIMS Workflow Service to appear multiple times under Add‐Remove Programs.

8227 7.4.15 Conferences The conference attendee sign in sheet, attendee list, and scanned list reports displayed the visitor ID instead of SSN even though a user with SSN visibility indicated SSN should appear instead of visitor ID.

8054 7.4.15 Web Users who access the OVR web pages using the authentication bypass feature were being redirected to the login page when their session timed out. Users are now redirected to the OVR home page when a timeout occurs.

8251 7.4.15 Locks and Keys Performing a lock or key module transaction with multiple rows highlighted in the output list only updated the first record selected.

8142 7.4.15 Facilities Users who remove or rename the 'OTHER' facility address type in List Management could receive an error message when trying to add other address records to facilities.

8272 7.4.15 Web Added code to the detail web pages to prevent records from being cached by the browser.

8219 7.4.15 Common Non‐managers granted access to individual utility modules were unable to change the data group assignments on utility records if the user was not assigned to a data group.

6491 7.4.15 Common Consolidated the rules used to determine which report overrides and additional reports a submanager is allowed to create. Full managers can create and modify reports in any data group. Submanagers not assigned to a data group can create and modify reports in any data group. Submanagers assigned to a data group can only create and edit reports in their own hierarchical group.

7637 7.4.15 Common The 'Change Password' icon on the main screen is no longer active if the system is using LDAP or Active Directory authentication.

7812 7.4.15 Common Expanded the sort functionality in Quick Reports to allow sorting in any direction using any combination of columns.

7981 7.4.15 Common Corrected issue where imported data could prevent database audit trail entries from being displayed correctly.

7990 7.4.15 Common Records in the Personnel module are only considered inactive if the termination date specified is the current date or in the past. This means that Personnel with a future termination date could be selected using the personnel picklist, but the parent record could not be saved due to a validation message indicating the record is inactive. The validation has been made to be consistent with the standard Personnel module rules that personnel with a future termination date can still be selected using the picklist.

8030 7.4.15 Common Corrected import related issue where empty values stored in the DefaultTransactionValues table could cause errors when performing a Document External Transfer.

8061 7.4.15 Common When copying newly added records, the outputlist was not always refreshed to show the copied records.

8119 7.4.15 Common Corrected issue that could prevent modifications to the Module Group access list from being applied to users already assigned to the group.

8125 7.4.15 Common Corrected issue where the SSN field was not available in the personnel or visitor outputlists if SQL encryption was enabled.

8179 7.4.15 Common Moved the visitor SSN column from the Query Editor in DoD, DoE, and SCI modules and placed it on the Quick Find tab. This allows users to more easily search for visitors on requests based on the level of SSN visibility assigned to their account.

8078 7.4.15 Conferences Corrected the way barcodes are generated for personnel and visitors when added to a conference attendee list. If the record selected does not already have a barcode assigned, a new one will be generated. If a conflict exists with another attendee in the same conference, a new unique value will be generated.

7794 7.4.15 Contracts Corrected the margins on page 2 of the DoD and NSA DD254 forms to more closely match the government issued versions.

8129 7.4.15 Contracts Corrected an issue where the contract prime facility listed on a contract was appearing as the default value on new DD254 records.

7854 7.4.15 Documents The Document Numbering Utility module was opening slowly if more than several hundred streams were defined.

7874 7.4.15 Documents Corrected issue with the document undestroy transaction that prevented users from quickly redestroying selected documents involved in the most recent undestroy transaction.

8016 7.4.15 Documents Corrected the ability to override the Document External Transfer Receipt report. 8121 7.4.15 Documents Corrected sorting issue on the Document module Transaction Reprints dialog that could

cause the same document to appear multiple times. 8176 7.4.15 Documents The document transaction default for 'From Facility' was being used for all transactions

but it should not have been applied to the Return to Accountability transaction. 6932 7.4.15 Facilities When 'Government Facility' is checked on the home tab of a facility record, the Granted

Date, SPP Update Date, FOCI checkbox, Next Check Date, and Cog Office fields are now disabled.

8154 7.4.15 Incidents The 'Filter Inactive' checkbox on the Incidents module outputlist was not filtering incidents closed the previous day.

7423 7.4.15 Personnel Corrected issue on the Citizenship tab of the Personnel module where Dual Citizenship and Foreign Person values were still saved to the database after US Citizenship was indicated. Those areas are now cleared and disabled for US Citizens.

7472 7.4.15 Personnel Corrected exception when querying on Citizenship Country using the Query Editor. 8109 7.4.15 Personnel Corrected spelling error on Personnel Courier Authorization report. 8115 7.4.15 Personnel Corrected issue with Contractor Position Roster Log report that could prevent all data

from being displayed in a readable format. 8120 7.4.15 Personnel The 'Enterprise Wide' default in Outputlist Customization was not being saved for each

user. 8140 7.4.15 Personnel Expanded the width of the 'Year' field on the personnel vehicle input form so that the last

digit is not cropped. 8126 7.4.15 Personnel Corrected issue that prevented required field checks from being enforced on personnel

clearance records. 8108 7.4.15 Visitors Corrected potential exception in the autonumbering module when saving a visitor record

after changing the Visit Occurrence Time Out date. 8111 7.4.15 Visitors Removed invalid Query Editor option that could generate an exception when searching for

Host Facilities. 8052 7.4.15 Workflow Corrected exception when sending the Personnel module detail report from the Task

Scheduler. 8110 7.4.15 Workflow Excluded FAX addresses from the e‐mail address validations when sending DoD visit

requests, termination/regrade reports, and visit request approval/rejection notices.

7952 7.3.63 DoD Requests Added option to System Customization to allow suppression of archived contract and facility records when using the picklists on the OVR input form in the web interface.

7896 7.3.63 DoD Requests Added System Customization option to include the visit request number on the e‐mail or FAX subject line when transmitting a visit request.

8044 7.3.63 DoD Requests Added System Customization option to specify the maximum number of records allowed when performing Termination and Regrade Letters. This prevents users from accidently terminating or regrading visitors across the entire module.

7087 7.3.63 DoD Requests Added e‐mail capability to the DoD Termination and Regrade Letters. 7925 7.3.63 DoD/DoE

Requests Added support for selecting Visitors in addition to Personnel records when populating a DoD or DoE visit request.

8043 7.3.63 Contracts Added 'Program Name' to the Contract module Quick Find dialog. 8050 7.3.63 Personnel Added the ability to display the remarks column on the personnel detail web page. This

value does not appear on the detail page by default. The web page must be modified in order to display the value.

7926 7.3.63 Visitors Replaced the JPASVerifiedOn (date) and JPASVerified (bit) fields in Visitors with the more generic ClearanceVerifyDate (date) and ClearanceVerifyMethod (list). If JPASVerified was checked prior to upgrade, ClearanceVerifyMethod will be set to 'JPAS'. The date stored in JPASVerifiedOn will be moved to ClearanceVerifyDate. Additional clearance verification methods can be defined by the user under Utilities / List Management.

7772 7.3.63 Common Added support for specifying sort column and sort order for Document and IS module barcode inventory reports.

7901 7.3.63 Common Added support for SSL encryption of SMTP connections. Also added option to enable/disable SMTP authentication requirement.

8085 7.3.63 Common Added ability to send DoD approval and rejection notifications through the workflow service. This uses the same System Customization setting that determines whether or not DoD requests and term/regrade letters are sent through the workflow service.

7638 7.3.63 Common Outputlist toolbar icons now work properly when more than one module is opened. Previously, opening multiple modules and switching back and forth could cause the toolbar icons to become unresponsive.

7362 7.3.63 Common Updated behavior of the Basic Data Field Defaults utility module to have 'Apply to Archived' box checked automatically whenever 'Document Return to Accountability New Custodian' is checked.

7383 7.3.63 Common The Facility link in PersonnelSAs was not available for queries in the Personnel module Query Editor interface.

8071 7.3.63 Common Corrected error that could appear when a manager who is not assigned to a data group attempts to add records to List Management.

8074 7.3.63 Common Corrected issue that could allow the same counter in an auto‐numbering stream to be placed on the recycle queue more than once.

8051 7.3.63 Common Corrected code used to detect duplicate barcode values to ensure that duplicate warnings appear in a standard dialog box instead of an error dialog box.

8028 7.3.63 Visitors Corrected synchronization issue between the 'US Citizen' checkbox and the 'Citizenship Country' field in the Visitors module. In certain scenarios, these two fields could become unsynchronized causing the 'US Citizen' box to be unchecked. This only impacts users of earlier v7.3.x releases. Users running v7.2.x or earlier are unaffected.

8064 7.3.63 Visit Authorizations

Corrected issue when copying Visit Authorization records and one or more copies violates a custom unique constraint (i.e., IX_VisAuthNumber). The unique record warning will now appear in a standard validation dialog instead of an error dialog.

8063 7.3.63 Installer Corrected a potential database upgrade error regarding the ASPNET account schema. This object is now ignored during the upgrade process.

8058 7.3.63 Personnel Corrected an issue that prevented users from sending DoD visit requests via FAX if the 'Send e‐mail & FAX requests from server' option is enabled in System Customization / OVR E‐mail & FAX. E‐mail transmission was not affected.

7997 7.3.55 Personnel The personnel export transaction no longer exports rows from the PersonnelJPAS staging table. This was creating duplicate row issues in some cases. Data updated from a JPAS import is still exported, only the staging table is now excluded.

7711 7.3.55 IS Corrected issue when upgrading from v7.2.x to v7.3.x that could prevent the new IS module lists from appearing in Utilities / List Management.

8056 7.3.52 Personnel Corrected an issue that could allow users with read‐only access to the personnel module to modify clearance records. An audit trail entry is always created. After upgrading, execute the stored procedure usp_VerifyClearanceAuditTrail to identify any occurrence.

8027 7.3.48 Documents Corrected issue performing document barcode inventory when the barcode value exceeded 15 characters.

8039 7.3.48 DoD Requests In v7.3.41, the DoD request visitor override for U.S. Citizen and Authorized Courier settings was changed from a two‐state checkbox to a three‐state checkbox. Due to this change, previous overrides of the U.S. Citizenship and Authorized Courier setting could cause the U.S. Citizen and Authorized Courier checkboxes to appear unchecked on the report, even though the visitor is an Authorized Courier and U.S. Citizen. This issue is now corrected upon upgrading to v7.3.46. Users who have not yet upgraded to a v7.3.x release will not experience this issue.

7863 7.3.48 DoD Requests Previously when a facility was selected on the home tab of the DoD Request input form, the contact phone & FAX information displayed on the form was not always showing the value associated with the facility primary address. The correct values from the primary address will now appear on the DoD Request home tab.

7963 7.3.48 AIS/IS In rare cases, the IS module barcode inventory could generate an error indicating that the AISBarcodeInventory report could not recognize a valid DateTime object.

5285 7.3.48 Common When a user performs a document transaction, and the client and server are located in different time zones, the date on the transaction receipt could appear to be one day earlier than the actual date. The values in the database are correct. This is a display issue only.

8012 7.3.48 Personnel User could receive an exception if multiple personnel records are highlighted on the outputlist and the Personnel Detail report is generated. This issue does not affect v7.2.x users.

8031 7.3.48 Contracts The DD254 continuation pages were not printing in v7.3.x. This issue does not affect v7.2.x users.

7955 7.3.45 Documents Corrected issue that could prevent users from copying document records. Only versions 7.3.43 and 7.3.44 contain this issue.

6477 7.3.44 Common Users could receive an error message if their SQL database name was something other than SimsXml. Only impacted v7.3 users, v7.2 unaffected.

7885 7.3.43 DoD Requests Users could receive an error when transmitting DoD visit requests using the workflow service.

7969 7.3.43 Documents Corrected performance issue when selecting document records for transactions in extremely large databases.

7970 7.3.43 Workflow Workflow service now performs additional error checking on destination e‐mail addresses before submitting the message to the mail server.

7976 7.3.43 Installer Corrected potential upgrade error while processing the DefaultTransactionValues table. 7978 7.3.43 Facilities Users could receive an error when copying single facility records and selecting the option

to edit the record before saving. N/A 7.3.41 Common Client, server and standalone machines must have the .NET Framework v3.5 SP1 or later.

Most machines will already have this version of the framework installed by the Windows Update component. You can retrieve the installer for .NET v3.5 SP1 from the SIMS website.

6477 7.3.41 Common Added a significant new auditing capability to all modules. This allows managers to view every change down to the column level, including old and new values. Audit data can be accessed from the input form of a particular record or from the Utilities module.

6432 7.3.41 AIS/IS Major changes to the AIS module, which has now been renamed to 'IS' module to be consistent with the latest NISPOM terminology. Added many new fields, several new reports, transactions, and validations have been added.

6726 7.3.41 Utilities Added the ability to mark users as archived under Utilities / User Management. 6867 7.3.41 Documents Added the ability to select custom headers for the transaction receipt when performing an

external transfer in the document module. 6947 7.3.41 SCI Requests Added capability to override special accesses and access types for visitors on SCI requests.

7005 7.3.41 Forms Personnel clearance audit trail now contains an entry when that person is selected on a PAR form.

7024 7.3.41 Visitors Added Visit Record Report to the Visitors module. This report was originally in SIMS v6 but was never moved over to SIMS v7.

7089 7.3.41 DoD Requests Added a print time option to the DoD request report to control visibility of special access information. Users now have the option of printing all specified special accesses, no special accesses, or only those accesses required by the request.

7111 7.3.41 Personnel Added option to print all contracts in the 'Historical Program Listing' report instead of requiring the user to specify a contract.

7121 7.3.41 Common Added new option in User Management to grant users the right to modify the data group on records without requiring administrator privileges.

7251 7.3.41 Documents Added System Customization option to ignore duplicate values when performing a document barcode inventory.

7375 7.3.41 DoD/DoE Requests

Changed the US Citizenship and Courier Authorization overrides for DoD & DoE requests from two‐state to three‐state checkboxes. This allows greater flexibility when specifying override values for visitors.

7430 7.3.41 Installer Updated the process used to perform SQL database upgrades. Users can now provide an XML list of custom database objects to be ignored during the synchronization process.

7471 7.3.41 Visitors Added System Customization option to notify user during a check‐in transaction if the visitor has visited more than X times in the last Y days.

7490 7.3.41 DoD Requests DoD Request module summary report now includes request number, from and to dates, from facility ID, to facility ID, and contract number.

7516 7.3.41 Personnel Added new Personnel module transaction that allows multiple training records to be assigned to multiple personnel in a single operation.

7525 7.3.41 Personnel Added DoE and SCI visit requests to the personnel detail and termination reports. 7527 7.3.41 Personnel /

Visitors Added custom report option to filter personnel and visitor images when retrieving data. This can significantly improve performance when reporting on a large number of records and the photo is not required.

7531 7.3.41 Personnel Added new 'sponsor' column to the personnel special access listview. 7565 7.3.41 Documents Added new System Customization option to restrict changing of container, custodian and

contract fields when editing a document record. When enabled, these values can only be changed when adding a new record. Additional changes to these fields must be performed by a transaction.

7591 7.3.41 Documents Added new System Customization option to automatically print a document detail report after saving a new document record.

7598 7.3.41 Documents Expanded the label generation wizard to document external transfer shipping labels.

7614 7.3.41 Documents Added new document module Transaction Default to mark documents accountable when performing a return to accountability transaction.

7615 7.3.41 Personnel Added new report to calculate the average number of days required to complete a set of personnel clearance tasks.

7619 7.3.41 Personnel Added a three‐state termination checkbox to the personnel module Quick Find dialog. 7639 7.3.41 Common Added new System Customization option to prompt users before automatically logging

them out of the system due to inactivity. 7650 7.3.41 Facilities Expanded the search fields on the facility picklist to include name, ID, address, and

convenience code. 7710 7.3.41 Documents Added print time option to the document module random audit transaction to print

document titles on the audit report. 7712 7.3.41 Documents Added a print time option to group document barcode inventory report by custodian. 7748 7.3.41 Web Added a new web.config option to suppress the domain control on the web interface login

page. 7752 7.3.41 Personnel Added User Management option to designate which non‐manager users are allowed to

perform JPAS import transactions. 7758 7.3.41 Common Added support for barcode inventory using the SocketMobile scanner. 7799 7.3.41 Documents Added the ability to override the barcode inventory reports. 7816 7.3.41 Containers Added the ability to override the Container Access List report. 7845 7.3.41 Common Added option to Quick Report label wizard to allow specifying the start position when

printing a sheet of labels. 7850 7.3.41 Personnel Added the 'SA Billet' field to the PersonnelSAs table in the personnel module Quick

Reports. 7855 7.3.41 Visitors Added the ability to override the Visitor Badge Report. 7858 7.3.41 Common Major reporting component upgrade from ActiveReports v3 to v6. 7861 7.3.41 Common The recently added Custom Report Header capability has been expanded to the DoD &

DoE request and termination and regrade reports. 7885 7.3.41 Workflow Added the ability to send HTML e‐mails from the Task Scheduler. 6799 7.3.41 Personnel The 'Personnel Count by SA' report no longer prints two blank pages at the end.

6826 7.3.41 Personnel The personnel module detail report displayed 'From Facility' information under the visit request section instead of 'Send To Facility'.

6861 7.3.41 Utilities Editing an existing custom report override in Utilities / Custom Reports caused the current user's data group to override the data group originally assigned to the record.

6982 7.3.41 Forms Archived records in the PAR Forms module are now displayed in red. 6984 7.3.41 Common Required field validations involving the SSN field are no longer enforced for users who

cannot view SSN data. 7237 7.3.41 Common All modules now consistently display the same tab when adding multiple records in a loop.

7359 7.3.41 Workflow Corrected issue where some reports did not work correctly when generated with the Task Scheduler.

7398 7.3.41 Personnel Corrected issue with how the Rate and Investigation Cost fields are calculated when modifying a Personnel record.

7467 7.3.41 Personnel Added the following fields to the personnel module Quick Reports for the PersonnelContracts table: Contract ID, Prime Contract ID, Contract Description, Facility ID, Clearance Level, Storage Level, Program Manager, End Date.

7468 7.3.41 Visitors Corrected issue with visitor module Visitor Log report where the option to use only records currently displayed in the outputlist instead used all records available.

7475 7.3.41 Documents Documents with a classification level with 'require witness' enabled could be destroyed without a witness being specified.

7526 7.3.41 Visitors The list of visitors in the Visitor module check‐in transaction is now sorted by visitor name.

7532 7.3.41 Facilities Required field validations are no longer performed on fields disabled by checking the 'Government Facility' option.

7623 7.3.41 Personnel The Assigned and Expected dates for personnel clearance tasks are now automatically calculated based on the completion date of the previous task.

7645 7.3.41 Visitors Corrected issue with the visitor detail report where extremely long 'position' or 'visitor type' values would not correctly wrap to a second line.

7647 7.3.41 Visitors The Visitor Badges Not Returned report is now sorted by visitor name.

7660 7.3.41 Common The fields in Quick Reports are not always cleared when changing the source table. Failure to remove the old fields could generate 'error 8' on the report.

7720 7.3.41 Documents The document external transfer transaction now requires the user to specify the dispatch and suspense dates instead of assigning a value automatically.

7728 7.3.41 Visitors Checking the U.S. Citizen option on the visitor module home tab will now display as 'United States' in the output list.

7743 7.3.41 Common Corrected issue with custom report overrides where the 'UserData' property listing required tables was not passed to the reporting engine.

7745 7.3.41 Common Corrected issue with saved label wizard layouts not loading correctly. 7746 7.3.41 Workflow Corrected issue where saved queries could not be loaded into the Task Scheduler. 7747 7.3.41 Personnel Corrected 'Personnel by SA' report display issue when used as a report override. 7749 7.3.41 DoD Requests The System Customization option for the DoD request module to clear special access

information when creating a new request was not taking effect. 7776 7.3.41 Visitors When performing a visitor check‐in transaction, the 'JPAS Verified On' date supplied during

the transaction was not used to update the value on the visitor home tab. 7792 7.3.41 Facilities Corrected issue in the standalone version where setting the option to require a unique

facility ID based on clearance rank was not appearing in the correct style of window. 7800 7.3.41 Documents A document module record that has been externally transferred multiple times, and has

had a return receipt processed for the most recent external transfer, could generate an incorrect tracer letter based on the first external transfer that was not associated with a return receipt.

7801 7.3.41 Common Transaction defaults were not being applied unless a data group was specified. 7807 7.3.41 Documents Corrected issue when performing a document module retention transaction where the

'retention authorized until' date was being set regardless of whether or not the date checkbox was enabled.

7809 7.3.41 Import Corrected an out of memory issue with the Import Engine when performing a link check on an extremely large number of documents.

7829 7.3.41 Personnel The personnel document accountability report could repeat special access information in certain situations.

7833 7.3.41 Locks & Keys When adding a new key to a lock record, the key information did not always appear until the lock record was saved and opened.

7834 7.3.41 Web When a user exits or logs out of the OVR web page, the user is now returned to the OVR webpage instead of the main web login page.

7835 7.3.41 Common An exception could occur when adding a new special access billet title entry under List Management.

7838 7.3.41 Facilities The option to require a unique facility ID based on clearance rank was not enforced when copying a facility record and selecting the option to skip editing the new record.

7846 7.3.41 Import Corrected a problem with the Import Engine when importing personnel records that reference facility records that already exist in the database. The facility information was not imported unless the user selects the option to create missing links.

7847 7.3.41 Conferences The conference module detail report was not displaying the primary clearance level for personnel attendees.

7848 7.3.41 Locks & Keys When performing a transaction in the Locks module on multiple records only the first record selected is modified with a new audit trail entry.

7852 7.3.41 Documents The document external transfer, destruction, and return to accountability transactions now use the 'Mark document unaccountable' option on the transaction screen to determine if the document should be marked accountable after the transaction is completed.

7856 7.3.41 Visitors Some of the temporary data columns were not populated when building a custom report in the visitor module.

7869 7.3.41 Import Import Engine now correctly handles importing personnel who have multiple clearances marked as primary.

7882 7.3.41 Common In rare cases, closing the report status window while a report is being generated in the background could generate an exception.

7890 7.3.41 Visitors Corrected cosmetic issue in the visitor module detail report.

7893 7.3.41 Documents Performing a return receipt transaction for a document external transfer now checks the document audit trail to make sure the return receipt is for the most recent external transfer of that document before updating the document status and return receipt date. If it is not the most recent external transfer for that document, only the audit trail entry is updated with the return receipt date.

7894 7.3.41 Personnel The personnel module Quick Find always combined fields on the clearance tab using the AND operator even if OR was selected at the bottom of the dialog.

7946 7.3.41 Import The import engine was not importing the Test Date field for Clearance Case / Applications / Polygraph #2.